A wildfire surrounds a historic telescope, a "triple threat" nebula comes to light, a crater's rim creates a "halo" on the moon, and more in the week's best space pictures.

The so-called Station Fire doubled in size Sunday night, threatening thousands of L.A.-area residences and a historic observatory.

Chinese soldiers practice their singing, a "flydog" takes to the air in Hungary, and Greece's hillsides burn in this week's best news photos.

Armed with needle-sharp fangs and powerful limbs sprouting from its head, the creature was found in the world's longest underwater lava tube in the Canary Islands.

NASA's new moon rover goes for a test drive, a telescope spies stars and planets cooking in a chaotic cradle, Martian dust devils leave dark patterns on the red planet, and more in the week's best space pictures.

As the world celebrates Galileo's first telescope demonstration on August 25, 1609, take a trip through time with pictures of the telescope's evolution over the past 400 years.

A long-legged mammal, a sharp-toothed rodent, and an iridescent beetle are among the more than 6,500 fossils recently unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit, where creatures trapped in 47-million-year-old shale have been helping scientists better understand life during the Eocene epoch.

See a torch-bedecked bull, a rocket go out in a blaze of glory, a green roof get mowed, and more in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.

New deep-sea worm species nicknamed "green bombers" fire glowing blobs to distract predators, a new study says.

A storm brews on a Saturn moon, gullies drape a Martian crater, tiny bursts of extraordinary energy heat the sun's atmosphere, and more in the week's best space pictures.

The world's seafood appetite is growing but its oceans are increasingly empty. See what science has dreamed up to fill the void--from untethered "Oceanspheres" to sharp-edged "SeaStations."

Among fertile farms once rich with wetlands, conservationists are recruiting Washington State farmers to temporarily inundate their fields in an effort to bring back habitat for migratory shorebirds.

A civet "makes" high-end coffee, farmers gather for a Scottish lamb sale, a Tokyo quake shakes up beer bottles, and more in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.

A hundred meteors an hour may light up the August nights during this year's peak of the Perseid meteor shower, one of the most popular annual sky shows.

A cosmic smashup sends lava and rubble flying, a Martian meteorite gets a color treatment, a young black hole is put on a strict diet, and more in the week's best space pictures.