The ocean liner was found during a 1985 exploration of wrecked nuclear submarines, says oceanographer Robert Ballard, who has revealed new details of the covert mission.

It's the smallest planet yet found orbiting a low-mass star outside our solar system, according to an astronomer who says the discovery may benefit the search for life.

Almost a thousand times faster than a terrestrial tornado, these solar twisters last about ten minutes and occur near the sun's poles, new satellite data shows.

Forced to import due to limited farmland, Japan is facing huge price jumps for even basic food items?and a night out is the first thing to suffer. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.

Even as the first named storm is being blamed for four deaths in Belize, experts maintain that unusually warm waters will contribute to an active Atlantic hurricane season.

Polynesian explorers and possibly their rat stowaways arrived on the Pacific island in A.D. 1280, new carbon-dating analyses show.

Amateur video shows cars piling on top of one another as a small stream swells over its banks in Jungingen, Germany.

After being rescued by fishers in Italy, five sea turtles were equipped with mini-computers to help study behavior, then set free.

Experts are split on how best to ensure the safety of isolated indigenous groups and what exactly it means to be "uncontacted."

A new view of our home galaxy shows what its structure would look like to distant observers, including the demotion of two of it swirling arms to minor status.

A long term water-use agreement for Israelis and Palestinians would ease tensions in this drought-stricken region, according to a new analysis.