The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet's gravity and orbit the ...

John Ashton, the veteran character actor who memorably played the gruff but lovable police detective John Taggart in the "Beverly Hills Cop" films, has died. He was 76.

NASA launched SpaceX craft Saturday afternoon, as part of its mission to head to the International Space Station and bring back two stranded astronauts back to Earth.

STREAMWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- A man was shot to death in the far north suburbs on Sunday, according to police. The shooting happened around 2:20 a.m. in the 300-block of Cedar Cirle in Streamwood, police ...

Some residents east of Atlanta were evacuated while others were told to shelter in place Sunday to avoid contaminants from a chemical plant fire that sent dark, billowing gray smoke into the air.

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

Lenyn Sosa hit a three-run homer in the third inning to give the record-breaking <a href=" White Sox a five-run lead as they ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump escalated his personal attacks on his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, on Sunday by repeating an insult that she was "mentally impaired" while also saying ...

There was flooding Sunday afternoon on Chicago's Northwest Side after a water main break. Water gushed through a street in ...

She would have been 29 when a farmer found her body in September 1991 in a cornfield in northern Illinois' LaSalle County, authorities said.

A woman in her 60s was badly wounded and taken a hospital Sunday after she was in a townhouse that caught fire on the city's ...

A Bel Air mansion that's on sale for more than $21 million has become the latest high-end property to be covered in graffiti.