Science

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has been tantalizing astronomers on Earth for several months since its discovery last year.

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our planet this fall, becoming a "mini-moon" temporarily.

A 12-year-old boy shot and killed a wounded black bear as it was mauling his father near their hunting cabin in the thick western Wisconsin woods.

A 45-year-old man hiking alone in Alberta, Canada, was mauled by a bear late Friday morning, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) confirmed to Fox News Digital Saturday.

Stargazers are in for a treat as a partial lunar eclipse and a supermoon will occur simultaneously.

Those squeamish photos show a burly, 4-foot-long eastern indigo snake that had eaten not just one, but two other snakes – including a rattlesnake.

A horse in Todd County, Minnesota, is dead after it contracted West Nile virus (WNV) in August, marking the first confirmed equine case in Minnesota this year. 

The City of Minneapolis and Minneapolis Animal Care and Control (MACC) are reminding the community to be aware of bats, report bat exposure and be wary of the rabies risk that comes with bats. 

Minnesotans could get the chance to see the Northern Lights on Thursday as a “strong" geomagnetic storm is underway.

Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 integrated payment processing solutions, participated in the first ever private spacewalk by a group of astronauts who left a SpaceX capsule after a delay of a few hours, testing a new line of spacesuits in the company's riskiest mission yet.

For the first time, there are 19 human beings orbiting the planet. They represent three different countries and are aboard three different spacecraft.

A Florida man has been arrested after he was caught keeping alligators and several freshwater slider turtles on his property, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5:23 a.m. ET carrying four Polaris Dawn mission private astronauts to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday morning.

Twenty possible new species were discovered during this expedition along Chile's Nazca Ridge, according to researchers.

The troubled Boeing Starliner spacecraft parachuted into the New Mexico desert overnight, without the astronauts it carried to the International Space Station in early June.

The Minnesota DNR is set to provide an update on what this year's fall colors will look like, after a wet summer. 

Researchers were stunned to discover that an 8-foot porbeagle shark, a top predator, was eaten by another warm-blooded creature.