This humbling image of our world taken from far away has been honored this week with a modern remaster.
Daredevil Oleg Rezanov's most recent stunt saw him being buried in snow with no protective clothing.
A violent storm that battered the UK this week exposed this monstrous carcass on an Aberdeen beach.
A new species of tyrannosaur that roamed the Earth 80 million years ago has been unearthed in Canada.
Astronomers have discovered the first known example of a fast radio burst that repeats in a steady cycle.
Scientists have identified a strange new type of virus with a genome that is almost entirely unknown to science.
A very strange video clip recently uploaded onto Facebook shows a bird seemingly frozen in mid-air.
A gargantuan funnel-web spider that is double the normal size for its species has been discovered in Australia.
A doorbell cam in Derby, England captured the moment a meteor spectacularly exploded in the night sky.
Crowds gathered in Pennsylvania today for the annual event made famous by the 1993 Bill Murray movie.
Scientists have found a tortoise with strong genetic links to George who was thought to be the last of his kind.
A huge burial ground filled with mummies and shabti figurines has been discovered at a site south of Cairo.
The well-preserved fossil remains of a 330 million-year-old shark have been discovered in a cave in Kentucky.
A group of amateur stargazers has identified an entirely new form of aurora that looks a bit like sand dunes.
A Scottish council recently received a letter warning that the lives of workers could be endangered by fairies.
A mysterious figure was recently captured on camera by Washington state's Department of Transportation.
A peculiar video, which shows an eerie figure staring at a man through a window, has recently gone viral online.
Palaeontologists have compared the feathers of a 120 million-year-old dinosaur to those of modern birds.
For the first time ever, scientists have successfully sequenced the genome of the elusive giant squid.
Remarkable silk structures created by an unknown species of spider have been puzzling scientists for years.