A weather camera picked up this peculiar anomaly on Sunday night and nobody can agree on what it is.
Up to a dozen islands off the far north coast of Queensland have now been closed to the public.
Scientists have discovered a huge colony of over 1.5 million rare penguins on a remote Antarctic island.
A solitary tree on an island in New Zealand may hold the key to determining the beginning of the Anthropocene.
A forensic expert has cast doubt on a 1940s analysis of bones found on a remote island over 70 years ago.
Built on an island in the middle of the Pacific, this mysterious ancient city remains a modern-day enigma.
A new study has cast doubt on the idea that the island's inhabitants had contact with Native Americans.
The microorganism was discovered in the lakes of the Rauer Islands off the coast of Antarctica.
A mysterious object found in the surf on a beach in Westerly has been raising eyebrows this week.
Until recently, maps and atlases were plagued by non-existent islands, mountain ranges and countries.
Sniffer dogs have detected possible human remains during an investigation on the island of Nikumaroro.
A photograph pulled from the National Archives appears to show Earhart at a dock on the Marshall Islands.
Two brand new species of small tree-dwelling primate have been discovered on the island of Sulawesi.
Researchers in France have determined why entire islands have been vanishing from the surface of Titan.
North Island's Whanganui River has been granted the same legal rights and privileges as a human being.
The bones of a castaway found on a Pacific island in the 1940s could be those of the famed aviator.
Forget haggis - Neolithic Scots living on the islands may have once had an appetite for the humble vole.
Remember that time a giant octopus dragged a ferry to its doom off Staten Island ? No, neither do we.
A peculiar circular island nicknamed 'The Eye' has managed to draw a lot of attention in recent weeks.
A new study has suggested that the inhabitants of Easter Island were not destroyed by warfare.