When The Phantom of the Opera opened on January 26, 1988, there was no way to know that it would become the longest-running ...

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 ...

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 ...

The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and ...

The court rejected a case to send five African elephants to a sanctuary, saying they have no legal right to demand release ...

Earth-bound landmarks ravaged by war, climate change, tourism and other threats also landed in the World Monuments Watch ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

A company called BlueGreen Water Technologies aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere while also fighting algae’s ...