While it is widely believed that April Fools' Day may have roots back in ancient Rome or Britain, clear references to the ...

Many Easter traditions like the Easter Bunny and egg hunts have surprising origins. Learn about their history and meaning.

Halloween may seem like a modern celebration, but its roots go back centuries before the Wild West. As Irish and Scottish immigrants moved across America, they brought their strange traditions with ...

“Twilight” star Taylor Lautner and his wife are expecting their first child, the couple announced on Instagram.

New DNA testing has definitively linked the unsolved death of a Utah teenager in 1974 to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy ...

Scientists just discovered a new species of magic mushroom, Psilocybe ochraceocentrata, that appears to have shared a common ancestor with the popular Psilocybe cubensis some 1.5 million years ago ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural. Some ancient thinkers, however, suspected ...

A meteor falling from the sky was responsible for a loud boom heard on March 17 heard throughout multiple states in the eastern part of the United States, reports the National Weather Service. "It ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met privately Wednesday with the families of six service members who died in the Iran war and, in a press briefing the next morning, said the message he got ...

In a 19-minute address from the White House, President Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks,” but did not make any revealing announcements. Zolan ...