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She used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.

Just how did she, and other characters from Beatles songs, get their names?

Starting in 2019, there will be other opportunities to catch totality—or see it again if you’re hooked.

The high-risk, high-return antics of the parasitic highwayman beetle.

So is Nashville, Tennessee.

"We’re going to bring the sun back."

Brookhaven National Laboratory's Paul O'Connor explains the mind-boggling promise of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

The predecessors to ConEdison wanted to know how an eclipse affected the grid.

Before and after the moon crosses the sun, interested people all over the U.S. will be spying on wildlife.

They're longstanding symbols of mourning at Germany's Rosenau Palace.

They set a new world record.

And were kind enough to ask.

German police are looking out for more than $80,000 of sweet contraband.

It's not the freeze-dried stuff.

They were important in the evolution of both plastic and rubber, among other things.

Developer M. Penn Phillips had a vision for the Oregon high desert. But there was a reason the area had yet to be developed.

Since the 1850s, gold miners have found about 600 diamonds in California.

The dug-out drawing of an ammonite covers around one million square feet.