250 million light years away is a black hole with 17 billion times the mass of our own sun

Your eyes can experience the complex nothingness of white. But what about your nose? A determined group of researchers decided to find out

A Mexico City band ups its hipster cred by fashioning a music video out of 1,905 Instagrammed photos

New footage allows earthlings to visualize the "seven minutes of terror" the Mars rover endured as it made its descent onto Martian soil

After you've documented the cake-cutting, the first kiss, and the bouquet toss, how about memorializing your first night of married passion?

A Ukrainian art installation invites wannabe Prince Charmings to kiss a sleeping princess. The catch: If she wakes up, the next step is the altar

The product of 450 million years of evolution, sharks are eerily bizarre and compulsively fascinating

When anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann studied how evangelicals pray, says Jill Wolfson, she came to a surprising realization

Scientists discover a chemical that temporarily stops the production of sperm, an effect that doesn't cause side effects and that appears to be 100 percent reversible

Hikers band together to save an injured German Shepherd that had been left for dead in the mountains of Colorado

The $2.5 billion Curiosity rover has mere moments to go from 13,000 miles per hour to zero — and one small error could ruin everything

The love pros at eHarmony invent an iPhone app that can be programmed to call with a fake "emergency," allowing you to graciously escape a lame date

Prosecutors charge that an Ohio teen kept his lucrative business hidden for three years, until his reputation as a source of righteous weed caught up to him

Scientists are surprised to learn that Americans born between 1961 and 1981 are increasingly indifferent to rising temperatures

A French duo tries to make feeding time a more enjoyable experience for the animals... on the theory that a happy cow makes for tastier beef

If your wedding band stamps "I'm married" on your skin, are you less likely to slip it off in pursuit of extramarital action?

A new method effectively nixes the high smokers experience after puffing on a cigarette — by attacking nicotine with the body's own antibodies

Soon, frustrated motorists might have the option of kicking back on congested highways and letting their cars do the driving

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen identify a chemical compound embedded in the flower that tricks the hard-to-treat brain into receiving drugs

For a few creative judges, punishments can vary wildly from the usual menu of fines, prison sentences, and community service