In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step that turned ancient ...

The younger a dog is when it is spayed or neutered, the more likely it is to develop negative health conditions later in life ...

The forest department is expanding two key facilities—the Manikdoh Leopard Rescue Centre in Junnar, which is the first ...

Humping (or mounting, as vets call it) is when dogs straddle another dog, person or object and repeatedly thrust their pelvis back and forth. Dogs can do this over another dog’s head or side (not ...

The Queen Alexandra's Birdwing is a beautiful butterfly, but its numbers have dwindled dramatically, and humanity is the ...

Venus figurines, with exaggerated sexual characteristics such as big hips and breasts, began appearing about 40,000 years ago ...

A new monument in Cobá, Mexico, has revealed the identity of a powerful female ruler from the turbulent 6th-century Maya ...

India hopes the Abe protégé will strengthen bilateral ties, but her tenuous domestic political position could test these ...

Three former residents say they were assaulted as children and silenced by fear. Now, the psychiatric facility is using legal ...