Rumors of another apocalyptic collision with the mythical planet Nibiru have been circulating the Internet.
Venus, Mars and Mercury will all be temporarily disappearing behind the Moon over the next few hours.
NASA's long-lived Cassini spacecraft will begin its final descent in to Saturn's atmosphere this week.
Two extremely powerful solar flares erupted from a large sunspot on the Sun's surface yesterday.
NASA's Peggy Whitson broke a slew of records during her latest 288-day mission aboard the ISS.
Researchers have discovered hundreds of new plant and animal species in the Amazon over the last few years.
The final resting place of legendary Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu has been unearthed in Fuzhou.
The ancestors of today's blue whales were deadly predators with rows of large, razor-sharp teeth.
Dozens of people had to be treated in hospital after a mysterious haze appeared in the area on Sunday.
The Belgian city of Malmedy was filled with revelers on Tuesday as the gigantic dish was cooked up.
The peculiar aerial phenomenon was captured on camera by Jeremy Le Fevre on Saturday evening.
NASA and other agencies have been posting up photographs and videos of yesterday's total solar eclipse.
One day, the Moon will have moved so far away that a total solar eclipse will no longer be possible.
A man in Edinburgh got the fright of his life on Tuesday when he found the reptile in his shopping.
The spacecraft embarked upon the first of its final five orbits around the gas giant earlier today.
Samir Singh collapsed from exhaustion a tantalizing 36km from achieving his goal of 10,000km in 100 days.
14-year-old Yana Tamocheva went missing while picking berries in Siberia's remote Krasnoyarsk region.
39-year-old Kristy Manzanares was killed on Tuesday during a murder mystery dinner show on a cruise ship.
A crane operator working on a construction site has recorded footage of a 360-degree rainbow.
Scientists have found evidence of a huge, hulking semi-flightless swan that went extinct 500 years ago.