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

When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

Researchers tracking female bats in central Europe found they migrated much farther in a single night than previously thought ...

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

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

DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery provides evidence of a "matrilocal" community in Iron ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

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

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

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

Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and ...