Tropical Storm Rafael grew into a hurricane over the Atlantic Monday and headed toward Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Two more drugs produced by the New England Compounding Center seem to be implicated in the fatal meningitis outbreak that has now claimed the lives of 15 people, the FDA said Monday.
A planet with four suns has been found with the help of amateur astronomers.
On Sunday, Chuck Yeager flew in an F-15 Eagle over the Mojave Desert in California, the scene of his history-making supersonic flight 65 years ago.
A large blue eyeball that washed up on the Florida coast was likely tossed overboard by a fisherman, according to the state wildlife commission.
The first head cam video from Felix Baumgartner's space jump where he broke records for the highest free fall and sound barrier on Sunday has emerged.
Austrian Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9 mph.
If you have kids with behavioral problems and are unable to diagnose the reason, check if they are sleeping adequate number of hours. A new study notes how a little extra sleep can make a big difference to behavior of children at school.
The space shuttle Endeavour has arrived at its final resting place after being decommissioned: the California Science Center in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.
Felix Baumgartner leapt from a height no other man has dared, and lived to tell the tale.
Felix Baumgartner completed his record jump from 120,00 feet Sunday, breaking the sound barrier.
Asteroid 2012 TC4 will be flying past Earth, and Slooh is providing live-streaming footage of its journey.
Researchers found that even two and a half minutes of intense effort within a single 25-minute sprint interval training session could burn as many as 200 extra calories in a day.
Spanish researchers have uncovered a concrete structure three meters wide and two meters high that they think marks the site where Julius Caesar was stabbed by conspirators in 44 BC.
A "silly" study finds a connection between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prize winners.
Somewhere off the coast of Florida, some large sea creature is missing a bright blue eye.
Sarah Brightman announced Wednesday that space tourism company Space Adventures Ltd. will arrange for her to fly on a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station.
The giant eyeball mystery that has stumped the marine biology community could be from a bigeye thresher shark.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has managed to reach out to the first Martian rock, and according to the space agency, it presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions.
The International Space Station visibly flies over several locations on the Eastern seaboard this evening.
Some studies have found that testosterone can increase aggressive behavior in men, but one experiment shows that the hormone may keep men from cheating.
As of Thursday, the toll of the fungal meningitis outbreak stands at 169 cases across 11 states, with 14 deaths.
A final necropsy showed that the deceased panda cub had poorly developed lungs, which led to a lack of oxygen that damaged her liver.
55 Cancri e, a planet 40 light-years away, likely has a diamond layer as massive as three Earths, scientists claim.
Earlier this week an influential British medical journal formally asked the government to set guidelines for young children’s television watching habits.
Felix Baumgartner's daredevil leap from near-space could help shape a new generation of spacesuits and safety measures for astronauts and space tourists alike.
Health officials in Pakistan’s largest city are investigating the details of a “brain-eating” amoeba that’s killed ten people over a four month span.
Sunday, October 14, will be the earliest that the weather will cooperate with the Austrian daredevil's plan skydive from a balloon nearly 23 miles above ground.
Officials think that as many as 13,000 people were exposed to the three lots of contaminated compound used in steroid injections that has been implicated in the outbreak.
Babies born from mothers taking antidepressants had an accelerated ability to attune to the sounds of their native language, while untreated depression had the opposite effect.