The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the ...

At 11:47 p.m. on July 25, 1978, a baby girl was born by cesarean section at the Royal Oldham Hospital in England. This part of her arrival was much like many other babies’ births: 10 fingers and 10 ...

A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to ...

Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.

Scientists have identified four types of black holes, classified mostly by their masses. But these mysterious objects ...

Killer whales might pulverize sunfish to break them into smaller bites for young orcas — or they might just find it ...

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else ...

Early versions of the Bible describe Goliath — an ancient Philistine warrior best known as the loser of a fight with the future King David — as a giant whose height in ancient terms reached four ...

Scientists documented humpback whales hunting together at the seafloor, coordinating their arrival to scoop up sand lances.

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...