Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

With the capital's reservoirs approaching historic lows, officials are turning to ancient engineering to conserve potable ...

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The ...

Because of the moon’s position, Earth is rotating just over a millisecond faster than usual on a few days this summer ...

As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was sparked ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a tag the size of a grain of ...

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

Built under the rule of Ludwig II, the grand palace complexes in Bavaria were among 26 new sites granted world heritage ...

The iconic prop, which is expected to fetch up to $3 million, will be sold in September alongside other pieces of movie ...