On this day in 1542, the Battle of Solway Moss left James V enfeebled and ill, clearing the way for his young daughter, Mary, ...

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial ...

Makenzie Van Eyk wrote the letter as part of a class project in 1998, when she was in fourth grade. Recently, the note was ...

Scientists say just 200 grams of the material could capture 44 pounds of the greenhouse gas per year—the same as a large tree ...

Paleoanthropologists have learned a lot about Lucy, the world’s most famous hominin fossil, since she was discovered in 1974.

Wildlife caretakers released the bird into the Southern Ocean after he'd put on some weight and regained his strength ...

Despite only weighing as much as a AA battery, these birds have charisma to spare and are amazing avian acrobats. Nearly 60 ...

Found etched into clay cylinders in Syria, the strange symbols date to around 2400 B.C.E.—500 years before other known ...

Found in western Germany, the stone plaques feature etchings of fish trapped in grid-like nets, according to a new study ...

The invention uses light, sound and bubbles to quickly create copies of soft tissue that might one day support testing ...

The monarch set fashion trends during her time, and the flower holder became a sought-after accessory in Victorian society ...

Four new images show our nearest star in dazzling detail, with each one made up of 25 shots observed by the Solar Orbiter in ...