When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with them, according to new research.

The 41-foot-long humpback whale that washed up on a Long Island beach Monday was likely struck and killed by a vessel, federal authorities suspect. The massive mammal, a male named Luna, may have

Black buffaloes wade through the waters of Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes, leisurely chewing on reeds. Among the reeds of Chibayish, buffalo farmer Rahim Daoud now uses a stick to punt his boat across

Scientists have spotted an enormous, 'alien' comet streaking straight towards the sun. © NASA Image Collection/Alamy Stock Photo 96P/Machholz 1 as imaged by NASA's Galaxy Evoluti

Intergalactic gas clouds are slightly hotter than they should be, new research claims, and theoretical particles called 'dark photons' could explain it.

An island near Tonga that emerged from the ocean in 2015 was teeming with unique life-forms, but the 21st century's largest volcanic eruption completely obliterated it, a new study has revealed. The

A strange blue spiral in the sky had people thinking they were seeing UFOs recently. The sight, which could have been mistaken for a UFO, actually has a more normal explanation. The phenomenon, which

Researchers using James Webb have peered into a molecular cloud to look for these ices which could be formed into future exoplanets.