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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins reunited Friday, July 19, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing. They gathered in the ...

A huge Stone Age settlement unearthed outside Jerusalem may have been home to 3,000 people, the Neolithic equivalent ...

LOS ANGELES—Scientists are closing in on a long-sought goal—a blood test to screen people for possible signs of ...

Snowball can headbang, vogue and body roll as well as, if not better than, any rhythmically inclined human. ...

The US Wants to Start Dumping Rat Poison on These Islands. It Will Help the Birds.

Federal officials raised the alert level Tuesday for the world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, which last ...

NASA announced the latest mission in its New Frontiers program, called Dragonfly, which will explore Saturn's largest moon, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has identified soccer ball-shaped molecules amid the gas and dust that fills the space ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, June 25, putting ...

Young adults appear developing "horn-like" growths at the back of their skull that researchers believe could be due ...

Researchers in France said that they've discovered an animal they're calling a "cat-fox," claiming it could be a ...

PARIS—Airbus has broken records by launching the longest-range narrow-body jetliner at the Paris Airshow, but planemakers are having ...

India's space agency says it will make the country's first landing on the surface of the moon in ...

The Gulf of Mexico could see one of its largest dead zones on record this summer, according to ...

NEW YORK—You've heard about the International Space Station for years. Want to visit? NASA announced on June 7 ...

June is set to be stellar: Jupiter will be clearly visible, and those wanting to catch a glimpse ...

The first U.S. astronauts chosen to fly aboard a SpaceX capsule built for NASA shrugged off a spate ...

A National Park Service is asking people for help to identify a strange spiny object that washed up ...

A scientific study of the Loch Ness in Scotland has found that its famed monster, Nessie, “might” be ...

LONDON—A rogue Chinese scientist who caused outrage last year when he said he had created the world's first ...

A Texas businessman and deep-sea explorer descended 35,853 feet into the depths of the Pacific Ocean to shatter ...

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 ...