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Extraterrestrial life could soon join gunpowder and papermaking on the list of great Chinese discoveries.

Did the narrow passageways to ancient, sacred tombs actually serve as the first telescopes?

The Monuments Men are famous for rescuing art looted from Jewish families during World War II—but it turns out that many pieces never made it back to their original owners.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit late Monday, ending a journey of almost five years to the solar system’s largest planet.

Archaeologists have discovered what may be a skull bone from the revered Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama.

A NASA spacecraft is zooming toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.

A solar-powered spacecraft is spinning toward Jupiter for the closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system.NASA's Juno spacecraft will fire its main rocket engine late Monday to slow itself down from a speed of 150,000 mph and slip into orbit around Jupiter. With Juno on autopilot, the delicately choreographed move comes without any help from ground controllers.

An American woman was handed a suspended four-month jail sentence in Spain Friday for threatening to kill cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

The Army Corps of Engineers has begun taking steps to reduce the thick, putrid algae that is fouling up Florida shorelines just as the summer is kicking off in earnest with the Fourth of July holiday.

Juno blasted off nearly five years ago, in August of 2011. And when it arrives at Jupiter on July 4th, it will be traveling insanely fast.

Antarctica's ozone hole finally is starting to heal, a new study finds.

The twists and turns of a scorpion's underground burrows are generally inaccessible to anything that isn't a scorpion — including scientists.

Mars harbors a mysterious kind of dune-like structure that's unlike anything seen on Earth, a new study reports.

It's eight inches long with a painful bite, long legs, and "a horrible dark, greenish-black color."

Parts of Mercury’s varied surface came from melted material over 200 miles deep inside the planet at the core-mantle boundary, NASA scientists found.

The shipwreck of a Canadian schooner that sank off Lake Ontario's central New York shore nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, a team of underwater explorers announced Wednesday.

Ancient Mars was even more Earth-like than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.

About 99 million years ago, a hummingbird-size bird got stuck in a glob of tree resin and eventually died, leaving its feathers to mummify in what became a lump of amber, a new study finds.

Ever woke up in your home bed not knowing exactly where you are?

Animals flee fire—but what happens when the flames are extinguished?