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A Texas businessman and deep-sea explorer descended 35,853 feet into the depths of the Pacific Ocean to shatter the record for the world's deepest dive—and he found plastic trash. Victor ...

Scientists have discovered that a tectonic plate off Portugal’s coast might be shearing into two layers. In 1969, ...

SpaceX Confirms Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test Accident

A teenage girl who suffered from "Rapunzel syndrome," an extremely rare intestinal condition that results from ingesting hair, ...

Reports of the Loch Ness monster stretch back to the 6th century, but in recent years, there has ...

WASHINGTON—There's a whole lot of shakin' going on in Southern California—10 times more than seismologists had thought. But ...

NEW YORK—Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes ...

HILO, Hawaii—Scientists in Hawaii are monitoring increasing activity surrounding one of the Big Island’s volcanoes. The Hawaii Volcano ...

Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, taking another step into what has been described as the ...

Scientists said they have discovered new thermal activity in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming that is about the ...

The doomed Israeli Beresheet spacecraft captured a photo just moments before crashing on the Moon on April 11. ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—SpaceX has delayed the launch of its newest mega rocket because of dangerously high wind. The ...

A 4,000-year-old lost city has been discovered in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to researchers. “We weren’t expecting to discover ...

TOKYO—It can't dribble, let alone slam dunk, but Toyota's basketball robot hardly ever misses a free throw or ...

NEW DELHI—An Indian rocket on Monday, April 1, placed domestic and foreign satellites in three different orbits on ...

SILVER SPRING, Md.— Government medical advisers said on Monday, March 25, that it’s too soon to ban a ...

Chinese scientists have created a liquid metal that morphs and bends like the T-1000 killer robot from Hollywood's The ...

Officials in Pennsylvania said they recently X-rayed a nearly 2,000-year-old mummy discovered in Peru that was locked in ...

Researchers said they’re puzzled by rocks found on a small island between Madagascar and the east coast of ...

Hurtling towards the earth 30 times faster than a rifle bullet, a 1,400-ton fireball exploded with the energy ...

NEW YORK—An international group of scientists and ethicists on March 13 called for a temporary global ban on ...

Everyone dreams between 3 and 6 times per night, each lasts between 5 to 20 minutes. You may not remember ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—America’s newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday, March 2, toward the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—NASA and SpaceX on Friday, Feb. 22, approved a first test flight next week of the ...

Geologists have said that geysers at Yellowstone National Park have been getting more active in the past year ...

A species of tortoise that was long believed to be extinct was discovered on the Galapagos Islands, according ...

NASA shared an incredible image of an aurora that was shaped like a huge dragon charging across the ...