Doctors weren't sure if they were dealing with a mass or a foreign object, but "it looked like a toy traffic cone." ...

Good news for the Moon, disappointing for everyone who wanted to see a really big impact from the safety of our planet.

As if returning to the Moon’s vicinity hadn’t already had enough things to delay it, now risky space weather could get in the ...

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...

M odern life provides enough for us to worry about without having to add space junk to that list. Unfortunately, it is ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

Our story may not begin in Africa after all.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially verified Chile as having eliminated leprosy, making it the first country in the Americas to do so and only the second worldwide. The rest of this ...

This little critter hadn’t previously been identified south of Montana, but tiny, fossilized teeth show it had traveled into Colorado by around half a million years after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

Ancient statues used to be fragrant and colorful, with their noses and heads fully attached, and many presented with a small penis. The question is: why?

Around 1,500 bones belonging to at least 29 people were found where they shouldn't be. But it was moss that gave the criminals away.