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According to an alleged victim of multiple assaults by an ex-football player, Baylor coach Art Briles and university president Ken Starr did...

The Geminids are among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids, and this year they will peak on Friday. The shower often produc...

About 87,000 people are being evacuated in a central Philippine region after a volcano erupted with a huge plume of ash and superhot stream...

A large volcano eruption in the Philippines sent a plume of ash and gases up to 1.8 miles high following a powerful blast that sent village...

NASA has announced more delays in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said Thurs...

Sierra Leone has started a nationwide rollout of the single-dose Ebola vaccine. The campaign, which started on Thursday, makes Sierra Leone...

A pair of European satellites has rocketed into orbit on a mission to create artificial solar eclipses. The launch took place from India on...

Positioned along the seismically active Ring of Fire, Indonesia and the Philippines have the second and third highest installed geothermal...

British lawmakers have started a historic debate on a proposal to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales, an issue...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. Researchers...

British lawmakers are expected to vote on a law proposed to help terminally ill adults end their lives. The contentious bill being debated...

Solar storms may produce faint auroras across the northern rim of the United States this Thanksgiving. Pale auroras may be seen Thursday an...

In a story published Nov. 11, 2024 about Microsoft and the Vatican developing a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica, The Associated Press...

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation work...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The...

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popu...

Researchers have created an early map of some of the human body’s estimated 37.2 trillion cells. Each type of cell has a unique role, and k...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astrono...

SpaceX has launched another Starship rocket, but passed up catching it with giant mechanical arms. The world's biggest and most powerful ro...

Eagle lovers around the world who were crushed when the nest of a Minnesota pair and their chick collapsed on live video last year will get...

Authorities say four monkeys remain free nearly two weeks after a group of 43 escaped from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for m...

Authorities say only six monkeys are still on the loose after dozens escaped earlier this month from a South Carolina compound that breeds...

Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditiona...

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought ba...

Cities in Asia and the United States emit the most heat-trapping gas that feeds climate change, and Shanghai is the most polluting. That's...