Astronomers have managed to piece together an incredibly detailed image of a distant supergiant star.
The gas giant is home to one of the most remarkable weather events found anywhere in the solar system.
The Belgian city of Malmedy was filled with revelers on Tuesday as the gigantic dish was cooked up.
The microorganism was discovered in the lakes of the Rauer Islands off the coast of Antarctica.
The next target of NASA's New Horizons probe is a space rock with some rather intriguing properties.
A sea algae boom has been credited with the rise of the first complex life forms in Earth's distant past.
Anthony Collis became totally lost in a remote part of Australia during a trip with his girlfriend.
The spacecraft embarked upon the first of its final five orbits around the gas giant earlier today.
Scientists have uncovered what is now believed to be the largest volcanic region on the planet.
The remarkably well-preserved fruitcake was left behind by Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition.
A 70-ton titanosaur has been officially established as the largest land animal ever to walk the Earth.
Samir Singh collapsed from exhaustion a tantalizing 36km from achieving his goal of 10,000km in 100 days.
The well-preserved skeleton of Sa-Nakht, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, shows clear evidence of gigantism.
A new science video has revealed what the view is like inside the mouth of a gargantuan great white.
An exceptionally well-preserved Roman neighborhood has been unearthed in south-eastern France.
This month marks four decades since NASA's two pioneering spacecraft headed off to visit the gas giants.
An unseen individual in India has been reportedly going around cutting braids of hair off women's heads.
14-year-old Yana Tamocheva went missing while picking berries in Siberia's remote Krasnoyarsk region.
Until recently, maps and atlases were plagued by non-existent islands, mountain ranges and countries.
Scientists have found evidence of a huge, hulking semi-flightless swan that went extinct 500 years ago.