A steam-shrouded bison, a bikini-clad diver, a seven-year-old shepherd, and other wild wonders stalk our selection of winning pictures from the latest Banff Mountain Photography Competition.
Giant alien snakes--some of which have been known to kill humans--could easily colonize Florida and other parts of the United States, a new report says.
Check out the tail-end of a galactic tussle, see the lighter side of Mars's "Labyrinth of Night," spy on ships' tracks as seen from the skies, and more in the week's best space pictures.
A newfound fossil predator, which may have hunted other flyers, is a hodgepodge of older and more modern flying reptiles, scientists say, bridging a gap in pterosaur evolution.
Highway bridges, an 80s public library, and a concrete powerboat arena are just some of the U.S. structures named on the World Monument Fund's 2010 Watch List of landmarks worth preserving.
From the skies of Venus to the Martian underground--a new tool pinpoints the three extraterrestrial worlds most likely to support life in our solar system, along with two also-rans.
Enormous sheets of gelatinous mucilage—full of deadly bacteria and viruses—are becoming a more common sight throughout the Mediterranean Sea as temperatures rise, a new study says.
See the strange halo on Mercury that not even astronomers can explain, a new Hubble stunner, a steaming volcano, and more in the week's best space pictures.
See Bluestonehenge, the newly discovered site that archaeologists say was likely a key stop on the journey to the afterworld—and to Stonehenge itself—for many Stone Age Britons.
They won't alter your mind, but the new glowing mushrooms make even scientists sound a bit psychedelic. Said one fungi expert, "When you look down at the ground, it's like looking up at the sky."
A sleek, "ballerina like" cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been unearthed in the Gobi desert, a find that reveals fearsome "tyrant lizards" were more diverse than thought.
People around the world are celebrating Mohandas K. Gandhi's 140th birthday, including children who dressed as him (mustache and all), U.S. President Barack Obama—even Google.
