Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY

Gold is probably fine, and we’re not sure about myrrh, but frankincenseappears to in trouble, a new study suggests.

That weird, cigar-shaped outer space object that flew through our solar system a couple of years ago wasn’t an alien spacecraft after all, scientists announced Monday in a new study.

The more we fly, the worse it will get: Contrails, thosewhite ribbons jets leave behind in the sky, will exacerbate global warming in the next few decades.

At 1,000 pounds and over 10 feet tall, this bird was onethe largest that ever lived in Earth’s history, according to new research.

Record-shattering temperatures are scorching much of Europe this week as searing heat from northern Africa overspreads the normally mild continent.

This stunning photo– taken by scientists on the melting Greenland ice sheet last week – shows how unusually warm it’s been in the Arctic.

129 degrees. 128.7 degrees. Those unfathomably hot temperatures have officially been confirmed as the Earth’s 3rd and 4th hottest temperatures ever.