A woman visiting Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, reportedly developed an infection with flesh-eating bacteria. But how do you catch this at the beach?

More than 260,000 glitter iPhone cases are being recalled because the sparkling mixture inside the cases can leak out and cause skin burns.

NASA is looking to hire a planetary protection officer, a person who will lead the agency's efforts to keep its spacecraft from contaminating worlds with life-forms that don't belong there.

The Great American Total Solar Eclipse will race across the U.S. on Aug. 21, 2017, casting a shadow over 21 of the country's National Parks coast to coast.

Ebola virus may linger in semen for more than two years, a new study suggests.

When the world's first flower sprouted about 140 million years ago, it was bisexual, possessing both male and female reproductive parts, according to the researchers who virtually reconstructed the blossom in a new study.

These conjoined bats from Brazil are only the third set of conjoined bat twins to be recorded in the scientific literature.

A spectacular outburst of jet lightning, also known as "gigantic jets," was captured by the Gemini Observatory’s cloud camera on Mauna Kea in Hawaii on July 24, 2017.

During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, skywatchers will direct most of their attention to the sun, but don't forget about the moon: Its slow progress away from Earth means these celestial events won't keep happening forever.

King Tutankhamun, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,300 years ago, slept on the forerunner of our modern camping bed, researchers have found.

Forty-six sites containing artifacts, mainly stone tools, have been discovered beside the remains of ancient lakes in the western Nefud desert in Saudi Arabia.

Firefighters were forced to decapitate a boa constrictor that had latched its teeth onto a woman's nose and wound its body around her neck. The woman survived, but the incident raises the question: Do boas typically attack the faces and necks of people?

Photos reveal the remains of hundreds of ancient lakes that were discovered in the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia. They date back to a time when the climate there was wet and humans roamed the region.

Total solar eclipses don't last very long — and that's a good thing.

A new method for creating self-destructing molecules could be used for drug delivery, erasable ink or other applications.