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 ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

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

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

Using ground-penetrating radar and laser scanners, researchers identified subterranean structures just a few feet below the ...

Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...

Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...

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 ...