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Mount Everest is growing taller every year, and new research suggests that the merger of two rivers thousands of years ago plays a key role in its rise.

Dolphins are actually smiling at each other when they open their mouths while playing with one another, according to a recent study out of Italy.  

The X9.0 flare takes the crown from the previous strongest flare of Solar Cycle 25, which was an X8.7 flare on May 14.

A massive solar flare could trigger auroras in the coming days. Here are the chances of seeing them in the United States.

Fat Bear Week is back, but the annual contest that celebrates brown bears and their healthy appetites was delayed after a bear killed another bear on a live webcam.

The beam of light is 3,000 light years long and is traveling through space at almost the speed of light.

This fall, the Earth will have a temporary cosmic companion. Astronomers have discovered that a “mini moon" will orbit our planet until Thanksgiving.

SpaceX has launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station.

Video from a new study shows multiple examples of octopuses using their tentacles to punch fish.

An elderly couple was rushed to the hospital after being attacked by a swarm of bees. The 74-year-old woman was released the same day. However, her 72-year-old partner, who is allergic to bees, remains in critical condition at the hospital.

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.

One Arlington woman says four of her cats were attacked, killed and eaten by wild coyotes. Although the city says it is stepping up patrols in the area, it currently has no plans to try to remove any coyotes. Here's why.

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 magnitude 5.1 earthquake, near Midland, shook parts of West Texas Monday night

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.

Since 1997, NASA astronauts have voted from space as the ISS orbits 250 miles above Earth’s surface.

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.