After police and the nearby bomb squad investigated to the scene, they announced that the weapon was inactive and safe ...

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

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

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