When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

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 ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

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 ...

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

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

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

The well-preserved thermal bath complex was unearthed at a lavish home likely owned by a member of the ancient city's elite ...

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

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 ...