In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

"Young Lion Resting" is among dozens of Dutch Golden Age artworks from the Leiden Collection that are now on view at the ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

For nearly 100 years, die-hards have been saying goodbye to winter by speeding down the slopes and water skiing over massive ...

The company’s ambitious new Sunbird design aims to harness nuclear fusion in space, despite the fact that commercializing ...

Visiting Boston can be like flipping through the pages of a U.S. history book, with its superbly maintained colonial ...

In 1992, Hurricane Andrew, one of the most devastating tropical cyclones in U.S. history, ravaged Elliott Key, Florida. “Most ...

Jump in the bean-themed ball pit, solve a pork puzzle and pose with a championship mustard belt at the new Museum of BBQ ...

Art Weston and Kirk Kirkland reeled in and released the enormous freshwater fish, known as an alligator gar, after a ...

Rescuers only recovered the bodies of 337 of the 1,500-plus passengers and crew who died in the disaster. Around one-third of ...

Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the ...