Students dance in foam, Indian asthma sufferers swallow live fish, a Japanese robot shows off its pancake-flipping prowess, and more in our editor's picks of the week's best news pictures.
A ring of gas and dust surrounding a pair of sunlike stars is the first proof that planets can form around closely orbiting stellar partners, new images reveal.
The Americas' first artist may have been an Ice Age hunter in what is now Florida, according to an anthropologist who has examined a 13,000-year-old bone etching.
The Taliban blew up Afghanistan's two known giant Buddhas in 2001, but is there a third? Archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi says yes, and he's determined to find it.
See a "fresh" impact crater and newly revealed, spidery landforms on Mars; an abnormally normal star cluster; and more in this week's best space pictures.
Like the aftermaths of car crashes, colliding galaxies leave "skid marks" of debris, as seen in new images that will help astronomers trace pre-crash trajectories.
In a remote region of the Amazon rain forest, camera traps have captured new images of elusive animals, including ocelots, armadillos, and the extremely rare and little studied bush dog.
A galaxy spews gamma rays, a space shuttle takes a piggyback ride, the International Space Station has a population boom, and more in this week's best space pictures.
A Swedish cottage gets a lift, a porcupine gets its 15 minutes of high-fashion fame, and miners extract sulfur from a volcanic vent in these glimpses of life from around the globe.
On May 28, 1959, two U.S. monkeys became the first to make it back from space alive. Get to know these national heroes as well as some of the other animals that have been launched into the history books over the past 50 years.
