From a mysterious meteor in Peru to a glowing deep-sea squid off Japan, find out which extraordinary finds from the past year struck a chord with our readers.
Tom and Jerry fans may finally have the key to why the combative cartoon mouse went sappy in the seventies, thanks to Japanese experiments with nasal cells.
Geyser-like plumes of dirt and ice, changing winds, and spidery channels are the keys to some of Mars's most enigmatic features, new images from an orbiting camera reveal.
Major earthquakes on the dangerous Hayward Fault hit the San Francisco Bay Area every 140 years—and 2008 will mark the next anniversary, scientists warned yesterday.
Soon after human ancestors began walking upright, female vertebrae started to evolve to help pregnant women keep their balance as their babies grow, a new study says.
Mysterious "night-shining" clouds may have become more radiant and widespread because of an influx of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, experts say.
Inflatable outposts and a robotic orbiter are just some of the steps already under way toward exploration of the lunar surface and beyond, officials announced.
Our solar system is asymmetrical, scientists reported this week, after the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the second probe to reach the solar system's edge.
Human pygmies around the world are smaller than average because they tend to live very short lives, in some communities as little as 16 years, a new study says.
