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The explosive green 'devil comet' 12P/ Pons-Brooks is about to reach its closest point to the sun. Here's how to see the rare visitor at its best and brightest.

Archaeologists have discovered lavish and grisly burials the world over.

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

Geneticists have critiqued a study suggesting extinct Javan tigers are still alive, but the search is just beginning.

There are many mysteries surrounding Europe's hunter-gatherers, but farming played a role in their demise.

Researchers say they've identified a kind of fat that plays a major role in aging and can be controlled with short-term exercise.

In a rare observation, scientists found a baby star "sneezing" gas, dust and magnetic energy out of its disk. This behavior could help solve a longstanding mystery about how stars form without tearing themselves apart.

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age.

Experts explain what the expected FDA ban on formaldehyde in hair-straightening products really means for everyday Americans.

The April 8 eclipse inspired awe from many skywatchers — but now concerns about possible eye damage appear to be rising.

Archaeologists aren't sure why a lynx and four dogs were buried together in Hungary around 1,500 years ago.