Although the hit took astronomers by surprise, its dark aftermath is still visible as a huge new spot on the gas giant's south pole.

From Apollo milestones to international moon artifacts, get an inside look at the videos, maps, photos, and more in the newest addition to Google's free 3-D globe software.

Forty years have passed since humans first walked on the moon, but many conspiracy theorists still insist that it was all an elaborate hoax. Examine the evidence, and find out why experts say some of the most common claims simply don't hold water.

New images from NASA spacecraft show the Apollo landing sites in sharp detail. Compare photographs of moon-landing bases taken before and after the astronauts landed on the moon.

As records have resurfaced, enthusiasts working from an abandoned McDonald's have begun restoring famous images of the moon made by the 1960s Lunar Orbiter spacecraft in unprecedented detail.

A white tiger dives into the blue, Google goes three-wheeling at Stonehenge, a conservator "camps" at Westminster Abbey, and more in the week's best news pictures.

Forty years have passed since humans first walked on the moon, but many conspiracy theorists still insist that it was all an elaborate hoax. Examine the evidence, and find out why experts say some of the most common claims simply don't hold water.

Don't let the foot-long claws fool you. Unlike the X-men's most popular pugilist, this newfound dinosaur species was no predator, scientists say.

Basking sharks, the world's second biggest fish, usually die at sea. So why did a 20-foot giant beach itself on New York's Long Island on Tuesday?

The earliest stars may have been twins, the newest Mars rover gets a massive heat shield, lightning strikes the space shuttle launch pad—and it's all pictured in the week's best space images.

Warning: disturbing images. Asian demand for whole-pangolin-fetus soup, pangolin-scale "medicines," and other concoctions is driving these scaly anteaters to the edge of extinction, a new report says.

Although the ethnic minority known as the Uygurs have autonomy in their homeland in western China, clashes with the country's Han majority are frequent. Find out more about the culture embroiled in the recent riots with exclusive pictures of life among the Uygurs.

A band of x-ray light cutting through the heart of a galaxy group is likely coming from a shockwave created as one galaxy plows past three others, a new picture reveals.

Special fog-catching nets that can pull hundreds of gallons a day out of the air are helping conservationists in Peru bring water to rain-starved communities.

A bull gets chased into the sea in Spain, India's homosexuals celebrate, and a Washington, D.C., panda gets a "veggie-sicle" birthday cake in this week's best news photos.