A volcano on the northernmost island of an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean has been spewing ash and smoke since March, threatening one of the largest colonies of penguins in the world, according to a new study.
About 99 million years ago, two bizarre spiders — each sporting hard, armored plates on their bodies and horns on their fangs — became mummified in sticky tree resin that turned into amber
Before NASA’s spacecraft Juno fired its engine on July 4 to slow it and place it in Jupiter’s orbit, the probe was zipping through space at a speed so fast it's hard to comprehend.
It's been a rocky road of late for biotech company Theranos and its beleaguered founder, Elizabeth Holmes, and a new major roadblock has now emerged, the Wall Street Journal and AP report.
Construction of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia has led to the discovery of a trove of historical artifacts that offer a fascinating glimpse into the city’s history.
Neanderthals that walked the Earth tens of thousands of years ago butchered the bodies of other Neanderthals, providing evidence of both cannibalism and bone tool-making.
Some 12,000 years later, archaeologists in Israel have unraveled the sequence of events surrounding the mysterious funeral of a woman believed to be a shaman.
Two continent-size blobs of hot — and possibly molten — rock can be found deep underground, about halfway to the center of the Earth, according to a new study
While scientists see Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus as prime candidates for life away from Earth, Cornell University researchers are eying Titan as a place that could be home to the chemical precursors for life.
Two astronauts and one cosmonaut will begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station late Wednesday, rather than the more common 6-hour trip.
