The final 3D atlas of the sky will help scientists study dark matter and dark energy, which make up 96 percent of the ...

A mouse's tumours, scales from a butterfly's wings and a smiling cross-section of a bracken fern are some of the incredible ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we’ve aimed “to injure no man, but to bless all mankind,” as our founder ...

Over the past seven years, Scottish photographer Kieran Dodds has been taking pictures of people from around the world with ginger hair. Kieran himself is "pale and ginger", what he calls a ...

Political protests hit an international crescendo, violence struck at the heart of America and wartime atrocities tested the world’s resolve. Fifty years later, it’s clear the year left scars ...

A selection of some of the most powerful pictures taken by news agency photographers around the world this year. A pro-Donald Trump protester carries the lectern of US Speaker of the House ...

The image is an authentic photograph of a researcher from Surrey NanoSystems, a company that produces a product called Vantablack, which they have proclaimed is the world record holder for the ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korea is a foreign and hostile nation, state media KCNA reported ...

Back in those days, Chandoha’s cat photos were everywhere ... Even camera and film companies promoted him, sometimes as “the world’s most famous cat photographer.” He would photograph ...

Photographers and stargazers have been treated to a show overnight as the harvest supermoon lit up skies across the world ... so until the end of the week. Pictures below show the Moon in various ...