LONDON  — The winners of the first ever Global Space Awards were revealed in a glamorous ceremony hosted by physicist and author Brian Greene on Dec. 5, during which the family of Apollo and Gemini ...

There is profound transformation coming over the next decades. It will unlock the equivalent of a century of change every ...

The star of Eyes Wide Shut and The Mummy reportedly has lines he won't cross, even if it means he doesn't get to shoot a ...

While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

Friedrich Hayek developed a novel evolutionary theory of institutions and society in his last decades of life that was at ...

The legendary Kraken has terrified sailors for centuries, appearing in myths as a colossal sea monster. Its story blends ...

Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

More striking still, the genetic damage showed up even in body areas that rarely see the sun. The findings, published today ...

Culloden was also the last pitched, large-scale battle fought on British soil, cementing its significance in modern British history.

The New Kingdom, which lasted from 1550 to 1070 BCE, was Egypt's peak of power, wealth, and territorial expansion, the era of ...