Researchers tracking female bats in central Europe found they migrated much farther in a single night than previously thought ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...

In places like Colorado and Minnesota, international teams of talented snow artists are creating larger-than-life ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...