Beloved New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian teacher ever chosen for a space mission, was one of seven ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

The earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.

Loyola University Maryland received the largest gift in its 170-year history, just a month after the Catholic school ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

She is a gentle giant with white hair in the field of education. With a career that spans six decades, retired teacher Mrs.

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from the Hubble Space Telescope archives, finding hundreds of ...

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.