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 ...

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

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

In places like Colorado and Minnesota, international teams of talented snow artists are creating larger-than-life ...

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 ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...

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

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