Knee-deep gondoliers breakfasted at café tables, rubber-booted locals waded through a pastry shop—despite a five-foot flood Monday, pockets of Venice showed surprising normalcy.

Skywatchers across the world witnessed a rare celestial trifecta Monday night as Venus and Jupiter joined a thin crescent moon to form a giant grin.

Nearly 3,700 World War II shipwrecks lie submerged in the Pacific Ocean, some containing noxious cargo including oil, diesel, gasoline, chemicals, and even unexploded ordnance.

During a massive expedition to Vanuatu, scientists collected 600 different crab species. The international team of 153 experts gathered a total of nearly 10,000 different species of living organisms.

A planet comes dangerously close to a red giant, Mars displays ultraviolet light, a galactic mystery solved, and more in this week's best space photos.

See the "elbowed," "elephant eared" Magnapinna squid filmed by an oil company submersible—plus pictures from a 2001 Hawaii sighting.

Using 21st century technology, an international group of scientists conducted an old-fashioned expedition on a little-studied South Pacific island in the Republic of Vanuatu. They collected 10,000 different species, 2,000 of which may be new to science.

Smuggled puppies, raging fires, a Sistine ceiling, and more in the week's best news photos.

Fossils suggest that much of Alaska was formed from a patchwork of small land chunks that collected against North America between 251 million and 60 million years ago.

Less than ten months old, Mapima was being mistreated by Congolese soldiers before she was rescued last week, experts say.

Flares erupt from our galaxy's heart, the ISS gets an extreme home makeover, fires blaze near LA, and more in this week's best space photos.

The gremlin-like pygmy tarsier, discovered during an expedition this summer, had not been seen alive since the 1920s.

The first evidence of a nest from a carnivorous dinosaur related to birds has been discovered by a Canadian paleontology team.

A NASA orbiter has captured a "unique brand" of aurora that lights up much of Saturn's north pole region.

Aztec dance, a World War II reenactment, tragedy in Haiti, and more in the week's best news photos.