A father-son metal detecting trip uncovered gold for the first time, but the discovery came with a macabre mystery.

Volunteer metal detectorists have logged more than 19,000 jewelry recoveries. Why beaches swallow rings every summer, and ...

California beachgoers already spend enough time scanning the waves for fins. Now, scientists are working on a robot that could do shark-spotting for them. Researchers at California State University, ...

MADISON — Just after 8 a.m. on a recent Monday, Doug McCall swept his metal detector across the sand at Hammonasset Beach State Park with a sand scoop slung over his shoulder. He listened for a steady ...

Here’s the naked truth about the country’s favorite nude beaches. Taking first place is California’s Baker Beach, which averaged over 1.1 million Google searches across the last 12 months, with a ...

Increase in sightings may not reflect increase in sharks with little evidence that threat to swimmers has risen Experts say that despite recent increased investment in drones to monitor for sharks in ...

The Schwartz is strong with a small Australian beach town that's having its own "space balls" moment. Six metallic spheres, each roughly twice the size of a basketball, washed ashore over the weekend ...

Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are “suspected space debris,” the Australian Space Agency announced Monday on social ...

NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia (CNN) - Officials believe several mysterious metal spheres found on a beach may have originated in space. Officials in Australia recently responded to the bizarre but ...

Several metallic objects washed up on a beach in Australia after possibly falling from the skies. But don’t worry, we’re pretty sure it’s not aliens. The Australian Space Agency has identified the ...

The mysterious metal spheres that washed up on a beach in northern Queensland over the weekend are likely to be debris from a space launch vehicle rather than anything extraterrestrial, according to ...