By delivering newspapers, munitions and secret messages to resistance groups, among many other incredible tasks, the brave ...

One leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most definitely don’t An artist’s impression of ten hot planets similar to Jupiter ...

Daniel Heath and William Lawrence, a pair of 22-year-old members of the British Royal Air Force, apologized for stealing a ...

Isar Aerospace, the company behind the rocket, is still heralding the launch as a success due to the data it provided ...

The natural disaster compounds humanitarian concerns in a country already in the throes of a devastating civil war ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Northrop’s P-61 Black Widow was late to the war. The fighter-bomber didn’t fly its first combat mission until June 1944, when ...

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

Individuals recovered at the archaeological site of Cerro Juan Díaz shed more light on how the local communities buried and ...

The find offers archaeological evidence of the 20-year interlude when the British ruled St. Augustine, Florida, which was founded by the Spanish in 1565 ...

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...