Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

British filmmaker says he has been given 'rare access' to the Vatican's secret archives and that the Church is getting ready ...

UFO researcher Mark Christopher Lee claims to have been granted "rare access" to the Vatican's confidential archives and is ...

In a good part of the island, violent winds and gushing waters left a scene of utter destruction. Bridges were blown away, ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

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From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

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At the bottom of the world’s trenches, there’s a fish that shouldn’t exist. Here’s how it earned the title of the deepest-living fish on Earth.

This deep-sea discovery is giving scientists insight into how certain ocean species survive together. Researchers at Kumamoto University in Japan discovered a brand-new species of sea anemone, and ...