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.
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong made history when they set foot on the lunar surface 48 years ago today.
Today marks 70 years since the recovery of a 'flying disc' at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.
In an interview on his 75th birthday, Professor Stephen Hawking warned of the dangers of global warming.
It has been exactly two decades since NASA's Pathfinder mission touched down on the surface of Mars.