No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp on what it even means to be conscious. But our purely human urge to ask the ...

UPDATE: A ninth home collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, Oct. 3, at 23047 G.A. Kohler Court in Rodanthe, according to the National Park Service. The home was unoccupied. The other eight homes ...

Seven North Carolina beachfront homes collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean since Tuesday, including six in less than 24 hours as hurricanes passed offshore. The seventh home collapsed just after 8 p.m.

Five unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the ocean Tuesday as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumbled in the Atlantic, the National Park Service said, marking the latest ...

Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda are causing significant damage along the eastern coast of the U.S., particularly impacting North Carolina’s coast. Although the storms have not made landfall, their ...

BUXTON, N.C. -- Five unoccupied houses along North Carolina's Outer Banks collapsed into the ocean Tuesday as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumbled in the Atlantic, the National Park Service said, ...

One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else as U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine seek to prevent the move from its home ...

Five Outer Banks beach houses collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean within 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon, marking the most destructive day for Hatteras Island since houses began crumbling into the sea five ...

Solar storms—giant bursts of energy from the Sun that disturb the Earth’s magnetic field—may play a role in triggering heart attacks, particularly in women, a new study has found. Researchers led from ...

Five unoccupied houses have collapsed in North Carolina’s outer banks amid Hurricane Umberto and Hurricane Imelda’s strong winds and powerful surf. Six more houses collapsed into the sea in the Outer ...

Scientists armed with the immense observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected faint traces of fluorescent flatulence leaking out from the dwarf planet Makemake, which lurks ...