Horror books, by definition, are meant to keep you up a bit longer at night, wondering if the shadow outside your window is really the tree that has stood there ...

Today in History for Nov. 28: In 1520, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake has struck multiple UK towns, with dozens of people saying it shook their homes or woke them up.

Hidden beneath the placid surface of a Siberian lake, a robot has mapped a landscape that looks more like an alien seabed ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Authorities report that some residents of flood-hit Sumatra have resorted to looting, seeking food and water. The floods, ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...