A plant "phallus," a hungry sea star, and miniature "dreadlocks" are among this year's award-winning peeks into our small world.

A plant "phallus," a hungry sea star, and miniature "dreadlocks" are among this year's award-winning peeks into our small world.

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.

See the latest, four-winged evidence that birds are dinosaurs in disguise, the guts of Nero's rotating dining room, a new Hubble stunner, and more.

See images of Ardi, the new human ancestor that could rewrite evolutionary theory. Updated.

Whole villages have been wiped out and scores are dead after an earthquake in the South Pacific triggered a tsunami that swept across several islands, including American Samoa, which has now been declared a major disaster area.

Dubai glitters in a space station view, a hundred-ton antenna catches a lift, an Indian probe spots traces of water on the moon, and more in the best new space pictures of the week.

A frog that eats birds and a catlike lizard are some of the 163 surprising new species discovered last year in the jungles of Southeast Asia's Greater Mekong region, WWF reports.

Found by an amateur treasure hunter in England, the largest known Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is rich with precious stones and intricately wrought war gear.

Found by an amateur treasure hunter in England, the largest known Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is rich with precious stones and intricately wrought war gear.

Found by an amateur treasure hunter in England, the largest known Anglo-Saxon gold hoard is rich with precious stones and intricately wrought war gear.