Supernovae like these are very luminous and referred to as "standard candles" in astronomy. As fixed points, they are used to ...

A Devon man injured a police officer who tried to break-up a mass brawl involving up to 20 people in the street. Dylan Roy ...

The $25 million would have aided Mass Audubon in the protection of 10,000 acres of forests and wetlands in the Connecticut ...

Chicago's Fourth of July weekend was the least violent in six years, with nine fatalities despite multiple mass shootings.

An estimated 796 babies and children are believed to have been buried at the site of the St Mary's home in Tuam, County Galway, between 1925 and 1961. Exhumation of the bodies has finally begun.

"I'm not sure anymore what it's going to take for some in our community to wake up," IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said after a ...

"We are ... signing this budget in a moment of great dysfunction in Washington," Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement.

Three people were killed and nine others wounded in a mass shooting early Monday morning in South Philadelphia, police said.

A 17-year-old boy died and several others were injured in a mass shooting at a Fourth of July party in Ohio. According to NBC ...

The Satanic Grotto sought a permit at the Kansas Statehouse to protest "Christian favoritism within our state government." ...

The shooting was one of several episodes of gun and knife violence in the city over the Fourth of July weekend.