When James McNeill Whistler put the final, defiant flourishes upon two golden peacocks on art collector Frederick Leyland’s ...

A new mini-series offers a fictionalized take on two unrelated 1969 cases: the mysterious disappearance of bartender Shirley ...

Fifty-five years after the first human lunar landing, scholars and experts are looking to preserve the past as more nations ...

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The car-sized VIPER rover was in the middle of environmental testing when it got shut down. NASA says other lunar missions ...

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The French are known for their pastries, but few desserts garner as much attention as this dried-out cake resuscitated with ...

Now, a group exhibition in New York is honoring how the tradition has continued into the 20th and 21st centuries. “ Dog Days ...

The new definition would define planets based on mass, rather than more ambiguous shape and size characteristics ...

The creature's bones show evidence of cutting with stone tools, adding to a series of findings that suggest humans were ...

Marine ecologist Denise Breitburg explains how oxygen loss is crippling our oceans, and why it needs to be included as the ...

A farmer named Oscar Fulk spotted it in a seven-acre lake on his northern Indiana property in 1898: a massive turtle, Fulk ...