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Venomous lionfish are striking to look at, with bold stripes and flowing, sail-like fins.

A tunnel in Lithuania that allowed 12 Jewish prisoners to escape in 1944 has been discovered.

What scientists are calling a "game changer" for society has been discovered deep in Tanzania's Rift Valley: a massive helium gas field with enough of the precious commodity to fill more than 1.2 million MRI scanners, Phys.org reports.

A gem of a meteorite found in Antarctica is studded with pieces of opal, a crystal that is associated with water.

Archaeologists in northern Israel may have unearthed a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan in the ancient city of Hippos

Archaeologists in northern Israel may have unearthed a sanctuary of the Greek god Pan in the ancient city of Hippos

Researchers at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands are growing edible space vegetables in soil similar to the surface of Mars and the moon.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the device and its possible uses

On the dwarf planet’s moon Charon, enormous cliff faces lurk on a satellite that’s just 753 miles in diameter.

If New Orleans is sinking, Beijing might as well be in freefall.

If you were magically transported back to the mid-Cretaceous, you'd likely have your hands full dodging dinosaur giants like Iguanodon or the toothy Carcharodontosaurus

Scientists on a key panel handpicked by the Environmental Protection Agency to greenlight new environmental emissions regulations have received nearly $200 million in grants from the agency, according to a federal lawsuit which charges the past funding calls into question the objectivity of the process.

Male banana fiddler crabs take courting to a new, and pushy, level: The little Australian crab males wait for females to enter their burrows and then trap them in order to mate, scientists have found.

It's been the subject of a half-century-long debate.

Scientists have observed a dramatic tidal disruption event in a galaxy nearly 4 billion light years away.

America's Atlas rockets are flying again, launching a communications satellite for the Navy.

The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a dark vortex on the planet Neptune, a spot in the ice giant’s atmosphere the size of the continental United States.

While investigating samples of toxic levels of heavy metals found in sperm whales, researchers stumbled upon a surprising discovery: All of today's sperm whales appear to have descended from the same female, reports Hakai magazine.

NASA scientists were surprised to discover a mineral on Mars called tridymite, the presence of which suggests a dramatic volcanic past on the red planet.

Solar Impulse 2 became the first solar-powered plane to cross the Atlantic when it landed in Spain early Thursday.