Throughout the history of civilization, we've been constantly plagued by all manner of horrific and deadly diseases.
A couple who had been attempting to sail across the Atlantic have been found dead in a washed up lifeboat.
Techniques used to analyze gravitational waves have now been applied to this enigmatic artifact.
If an alien civilization has terraformed the atmosphere of a distant planet, we may be able to find it.
The next-generation vehicle was inadvertently picked up on satellite images at the Port Hueneme naval base in California.
Dragons have been a staple of fantasy fiction for years, but could fire-breathing ever actually work in the real world ?
The historic vessel was used during famed polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's last voyage to the Antarctic.
Scientists now believe that elephants, like humans, have assigned names that they use when calling one another.
Researchers have unearthed a huge collection of rock engravings in South America dating back over 1,000 years.
Luring inquisitive extraterrestrials to our planet using nuclear radiation seems like a bit of a shot in the dark.
For years, anthropologists struggled to determine which human ancestor the skull - along with two others - belonged to.
Staff Sergeant Mario Woods had a close encounter with something he could not explain back in 1977.
The animal, which looked unusually large for a domestic cat, was seen bounding through a nearby field.
Has the James Webb Space Telescope found life on a distant extrasolar world or could there be an alternative explanation ?
In New Zealand, Indigenous leaders recently signed a remarkable new treaty to recognize whales as legal 'persons'.
A gas discovered in the atmosphere of this distant extrasolar planet is 'only produced by life', say scientists.
Paleontologists have identified a huge species of ichthyosaur from fossils found on a British beach.
For years, archaeologists have remained divided over the discovery of alleged giant skeletons and artifacts.
The man, who intended to visit Washington state, had wanted to know if shooting Bigfoot would break the law.
Could someone realistically have their brain transferred to a new body or is this purely the stuff of science fiction ?