Hubble’s celestial peanut

Image: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1175, a galaxy with an…

Geminid meteor shower's dust trail spotted for the first time

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spotted Geminid meteor shower’s dust trail from space for the first time…

Anak Krakatau: Giant blocks of rock litter ocean floor

Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is imaged on the seabed for the first…

Anger, relief but no joy as UN climate talks limp to an end

A marathon UN summit wrapped up Sunday with little to show, squeezing hard-earned compromises from countries…

How Madrid talks fell short on climate ambition

This year’s U.N. climate negotiations in Madrid, the longest in 25 nearly annual such gatherings, ended…

Smog forces schools shut in Iran

Air pollution forced schools to close on Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, as the…

Climate change: Longest talks end with compromise deal

Exhausted delegates reach agreement on the key question of ambition with tricky issues postponed. …

This little piggy went to court: German piglets 'sue over castration'

Little piggies go to market, but in Germany they also go to court. Click…

Strong quake sends people out of malls in south Philippines

A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines on Sunday, causing a three-story building to collapse and…

Researchers discover exoplanets can be made less habitable by stars' flares

The discovery of terrestrial exoplanets, planets that orbit stars outside the solar system, has been one…