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 ...

Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...