Mindy Weisberger

When NASA launches the DART mission on Nov. 24, the spacecraft will embark on a months-long journey toward a distant asteroid target.

The Australian Reptile Park recently welcomed the biggest funnel-web spider that the keepers had ever seen.

The pathogenic fungus Entomophthora muscae doesn't just kill the flies it infects; it also turns males into sex-crazed necrophiliacs.

Venomous fat-tailed scorpions stung more than 500 people after heavy storms disrupted their habitats and brought the deadly arachnids closer to people.

Asian honey bees rally against giant hornet invasions with an acoustic response that resembles the alarm shrieks of birds, primates and other social mammals.

Authorities never found the killer of a young woman whose homicide inspired the story of doomed Laura Palmer. A new book pieces together clues about her murder.

Archaeologists recently discovered a ring set with a purple stone, possibly an amethyst, that may have been worn to prevent the pain of a hangover.

New Zealand's long-tailed bat recently earned a very unlikely accolade.

Asteroid 2021 UA1, a space rock about the size of a refrigerator, made a surprise appearance when it recently flew past Earth.

Genetic analysis recently showed that California condors can reproduce asexually.

Filmmakers documented the expedition to a remote part of the Honduran rainforest in La Mosquitia.

Acid attacks from sulfur-producing bacteria could eat away at the preserved hull of a ship that was once the pride of King Henry VIII's armada, scientists recently discovered.

More than half of the species in five mammal groups went extinct in Africa about 34 million years ago, scientists recently discovered.

A cake that was scorched by WWII-era bombs — but remained intact — was recently discovered by archaeologists in Germany

The footprints of a Triassic dinosaur in Australia convinced scientists that the animal was a giant carnivore, but a new analysis proved otherwise.

Contraception may be the only key to controlling a population boom in feral hippos living in Colombian rivers near Pablo Escobar's former estate.

UFO enthusiasts who rallied in 2019 to invade Area 51 may have been joking about "storming" the base. But law enforcement officials took the idea very, very seriously.

Two graves that were recently excavated in an ancient impact crater in Bavaria, Germany, held high-quality goods that were unusual for burials in the Middle Ages.

A meteorite that landed in British Columbia crashed through a roof and narrowly missed hitting a woman who was asleep in her bed at the time.

Leprosy, a disease that was previously unknown in non-human primates in the wild, has been detected in two unconnected populations of chimpanzees in West Africa.

Federal prosecutors charged a man with illegally harvesting wild turtles to sell commercially, which is illegal in Florida.

A boy stumbled upon a mastodon molar while on a nature walk in Michigan.

New analysis of bones in the Tomb of Nestor's Cup revealed a surprising discovery: Long thought to be the burial of a child, the tomb instead held the remains of at least three adults.

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

Thawing permafrost driven by climate change could free decades-old radioactive material, antibiotic-resistant microbes and unknown viruses that have been frozen for millennia.