A record-breaking great white shark was spotted swimming off the coast of Nantucket, Mass. on July 18. The shark, named ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

Surfing is a lot like fishing in that stories tend to grow over time. Here are six whoppers that still have us wondering.

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

Once a quiet fishing village, Nazaré, Portugal, is home to some of the world's largest rideable waves, reaching up to 100 feet. Learn more about this destination, what causes these massive waves ...

The biggest U.S. companies have seen their stock prices flourish since the April 8 stock-market low, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Only one of the nine trillion-dollar companies listed in ...

One such event is a colossal storm that generated the largest waves ever recorded in human history. These monumental waves, towering at heights unimagined before, bring with them stories of natural ...

Clouds Are Cool, but Have You Ever Seen One Like This? A “roll cloud” spotted off the coast of Portugal looked like something out of a movie. Here’s the science behind it.

Europe sizzled in its first major heat wave of the summer on Tuesday, as Barcelona recorded its hottest June in over a century and the summit of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower was closed to visitors ...