(CNN) — As the sun set and businesses started to close in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, the evening calm was suddenly shattered by a giant explosion near the city’s airport. A UPS freight plane ...

Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope aren’t giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be ...

Imagine a world filled with flying pterosaurs, giant herbivores, and small feathered predators like Sinosauropteryx. In this episode, explore the remarkable fossil discoveries that have given us ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An appeal hearing opened Monday in South Africa on whether a subsidiary of British-based mining company Anglo American PLC was responsible for lead poisoning over ...

Inflatable "Monsters" will take over New York on Thanksgiving Day. The Beijing-based toy maker is cementing its global footprint with a themed float featuring an assortment of "beloved" characters.

The original owners of iconic ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s want to free the company from its current corporate ownership and restore its ability to take progressive political positions. Unilever, the ...

One of the worst days in the history of life on Earth started like any other. Herds of hadrosaurs with huge head crests and duck bills roamed ancient New Mexico for plants to eat, making sure not to ...

For decades, many scientists believed dinosaurs were already dwindling in number and variety long before an asteroid strike sealed their fate 66 million years ago. However, new research in the journal ...