NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is scheduled to touch down near the planet's north pole Sunday and begin its search for signs of life on Mars.

A giant panda missing since the May 12 earthquake returned to the Wolong National Nature Reserve, Chinese media reports, but two more remain unaccounted for.

A TV crew in Japan has captured a 45-second glide believed to be the longest recorded flight of a flying fish.

Host Alex Trebek asks the last three questions of the final round in the 2008 National Geographic Bee held in Washington, D.C.

China TV showed a man being rescued after spending about a week in rubble following the magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Sichuan Province May 12.

A boat called Earthrace is on a mission to break the speed record for circumnavigating the globe—powered entirely by biodiesel.

Seen in cell-phone camera footage, handlers at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in China evacuated more than a dozen panda cubs just after the massive May 12 earthquake.

The tree-dwelling creatures were put on a specially built treadmill of ropes and pulleys as part of new research into how much energy the animals expend.

Real-life rocket man Yves Rossy soared through the Alps this week on his first demonstration flight with a self-made flying contraption.

More than 400 racehorses—many of them in perfect health—are "destroyed" each year in the U.S. territory, where keeping losing or injured horses can be costly. Warning: graphic imagery.

A tourist visiting a reserve during the massive earthquake in China says pandas seemed to sense something was wrong before the quake struck.

The U.S. has listed the polar bear as threatened, sparking a global warming debate and garnering mixed reactions from environmentalists.

A small, fragile piece of a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scroll was shown briefly to visitors at a Jerusalem conference.

Two amateur videos taken in Chengdu, China—near the epicenter of Monday's devastating earthquake—show people running in panic as the ground shakes.

Monday's devastating earthquake in central China occurred along a fault where South Asia pushes against the Eurasian land mass, scientists say.