A former Albuquerque police lieutenant who pleaded guilty to a federal extortion charge Tuesday revealed how co-conspirators ...

On Nov. 23, 1976, the Spokane Police Department received a note, handwritten by some person or group calling themselves ...

The Galileo spacecraft spotted a shape on Europa originally compared to an asterisk, but now seen more as a spider. Whatever you call it, scientists hope explaining the forces that produced this shape ...

People on Reddit shared their experiences about how heeding their inner voice saved them from danger. They’ve been spared ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...

Nearly invisible and deceptively thin, this ice is one of winter’s deadliest hazards. Here’s how it forms and why it causes ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

I didn’t even like the pie. It was too sweet and store-bought. Still, there I was—standing barefoot in the kitchen, fork in hand, jeans already unbuttoned, eating it straight from the plastic ...

For decades, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has offered a snapshot of the planet's ...

The internet remembers everything. Scroll back far enough, and you can usually spot the moment you were lied to—by a politician, a brand, a company, maybe even someone close to you. And yet, here we ...

After experiencing one of the slowest starts to ski season in decades, snow has finally arrived in the Tahoe region — and more could be on the way, the National Weather Service’s Reno office says.

On Sunday, Dec. 21, at exactly 10:03 a.m. EST, the Northern Hemisphere's astronomical winter officially begins with the winter solstice. That's the moment when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted ...