Call it a lucky break. Scientists have snapped new photos with twice the resolution of Hubble images—at just a fraction of the cost.

See a roundup of this week's news: Lunar eclipse seen over Sydney, eight-year-old runs across China, Burning Man lights up Nevada, and more.

The first photographs of a wild Chinese mountain cat have been taken high in the Tibetan Plateau in China's Sichuan Province.

The colorful new species of toxic frog can only be found in a patch of Colombian forest the size of ten city blocks.

More than 1,500 victims of 15th- and 16th-century bubonic plague have been found in mass graves on an island near Venice.

Pollen-bearing parts attached to the back of a bee from 10 million to 15 million years ago offer new insight into the flowers' evolution, researchers say.

A recent UN report says that Afghanistan now accounts for 93 percent of the world's production of opium, the raw material for heroin.

Find out where to get the best view of tomorrow's total eclipse of the moon—the second and last of 2007.

Firefighters have beat back the flames that threatened Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games, but dozens more wildfires are raging throughout Greece.

See a roundup of this week's news: New neutron star discovered, German police test gyrocopter, Egyptians seek sand treatment, and more.

Pushed to their limits most of the year, Indian temple elephants are treated to an end-of-summer regimen of massage, rest, and health food.

The first image of the rings taken by a ground-based telescope is allowing astronomers to gain new insight by peeking where the sun doesn't often shine.

From a fearsome viperfish to a see-through squid, see the strange animals recently found on a deep-sea survey in the North Atlantic.

See pictures of the damage in Mexico and Belize caused by Dean after the powerful storm slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula.

Satellite imagery and scenes of destruction illustrate the first chapter of the storm's story as it heads for Mexico and the U.S.