As U.S. firm SpaceX prepares for its third launch to the space station Friday, NASA said there was nothing “particularly challenging” about a mission that a few months ago was unprecedented.

A hat that belonged to South Korea's most revered monarch King Sejong has been recovered more than 500 years after it was looted by Japanese invaders, a senior scholar said Wednesday.

Scientists said Sunday they had found traces of a microcontinent hidden underneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

There's not much time left for those who want a glimpse of central Taipei's past. Huaguang Community (華光社區), one of the city's oldest communities and seated at the crossing of Hangzhou South Road and Aiguo Road, is set for demolition — a move both disrespecting its historical value and inhabitants' rights.

Researchers in Australia have provided the final piece of a puzzle to develop a new anti-malarial drug, which targets the parasite that causes the disease and kills it with a salt overdose.

Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their winter habitat may be the reason.

A 150-foot (45-meter)-wide asteroid will come remarkably close to Earth next week, even closer than high-flying communication and weather satellites. It will be the nearest known flyby for an object of this size.

New research pinpoints how the torch passed from one dominant creature on Earth to another, from the brutish dinosaur to the crafty mammal.

He wore the English crown, but he ended up defeated, humiliated and reviled. Now things are looking up for King Richard III. Scientists announced Monday that they had found the monarch's 500-year-old remains under a parking lot in the city of Leicester — a discovery Richard's fans say will rewrite the history books.

U.S. medical specialists from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have figured out how owls can almost fully rotate their heads — by as much as 270 degrees in either direction.