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.
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.
California tadpoles are developing into frogs with missing legs and eyes—deformities possibly caused by an alien parasite that usually attacks farmed fish, experts say.
See Saturn "split in half" by sunlight, sparkling sights near the Milky Way's black hole, the futuristic final plane to be tested in a dying wind tunnel, and more in the best new space pictures of the week.