A complete tusk believed to belong to a prehistoric mammoth was uncovered on Santa Cruz Island off the Southern California coast,...

Decision to eradicate feral cats from Macquarie island to save seabirds allowed the rabbit population to explode and, in turn, destroy much...

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England report that men with longer ring fingers, compared to their index fingers, tended to...

Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed...

Congressional auditors say that NASA's in-house financial watchdog is doing little to unearth waste and abuse at the space agency.

NASA's chief says it would cost an extra $3 billion a year to keep flying the space shuttle past next year's retirement date. Plus it would...

In a surprise move, it seems likely the first genetically engineered animal approved for commercial use won't be a fast-growing salmon, as...

When galaxies initially formed, they weren't the first in the cosmic neighborhood. The supermassive black holes, which reside at the center...

President Bush will establish the largest marine reserve ever created today when he designates three remote Pacific Ocean regions as...

Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was...