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Orchids are usually prized for their loveliness, but a newly described species is no beauty.

The variant has a mutation that may make the virus "sticker" or allow it to bind more tightly to human cells.

According to the New Testament, the Star of Bethlehem led the three wise men to Jesus' birth. Here are a few theories about what the star re...

Did the biblical "Star of Bethlehem" come back in 2020? It wouldn't be crazy to think so. But it's not the only possibility.

Jaffa's 4,000-year-old history is buried beneath its streets.

A wolf pup mummy, perfectly preserved in permafrost for 57,000 years, is finally giving up some of its secrets.

An epic nighttime skydive saw Red Bull Air Force's Amy Chmelecki and teammates don pyrotechnics to highlight – literally – the importance of...

Astronomers hunting for radio signals from alien civilizations have reportedly detected an "intriguing signal" from the direction of Proxima...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched a clandestine U.S. spy  satellite into space for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)  Saturday (...

While officially lawless, settlers usually weren't all that wild.

From programmable robots to pocket-sized computers, there are a plethora of tools out there for kids to learn the basics of programming.

If there are other intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, they are probably much closer than we are to the galactic center, and fairly...

Crops grown near the Chernobyl nuclear site in Ukraine are still contaminated with radiation from the explosive 1986 disaster.

After a small piece of wood from the Great Pyramid was donated to a museum in Scotland, it vanished for decades. A curator found it hiding i...

Two newly discovered fungi eat flies from the inside out while dropping new spores out of holes dissolved in the living flies' abdomens.

It's summer in Mars' southern hemisphere, and strange structures are crawling out of the ice.

Here are the world's most deadliest earthquakes, cyclones and floods.

Many Alpine summits may have been ice-free before about 5,900 years ago.

The moon's tides affect how much methane is released from seafloor sediments and the implications are huge.

Robotic "Mars Dogs" could use artificial intelligence and sensors to investigate the Martian surface and map hidden lava tunnels.

Two dinosaurs that died in China during the Cretaceous were fossilized in 3D — but it probably wasn't a volcanic eruption that killed and pr...

A mammoth oil tanker is decaying into the Red Sea, threatening to pollute the water supply of millions of people and the world's most resili...

A wild mink just tested positive.

An archaeological site in northeast Spain holds one of the oldest-known Muslim cemeteries in the country, with the discovery of 433 graves.

As of late summer, governments around the world had pledged US$12.2 trillion of relief in response to the coronavirus pandemic.