The space station offers a view of Hurricane Ike, a debris arc orbits with Saturn's moon, and more in our weekly roundup of space photos.

Liverpool celebrates with a giant mechanical spider, Coney Island's Astroland closes, and more in our new weekly roundup of culture photos.

Hurricane Gustav inspired a bit of bathing, virgins awaited a king in Africa, hail spurred "snowball fights" in Kenya, and more.

The deluge, caused by a dam break in Nepal, has destroyed more than 250,000 acres of farmland, killed at least 90 people, and left at least a million people homeless.

A supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way has wound up in the crosshairs of a virtual telescope spanning 2,800 miles.

A long, hot summer has ice shelves on Canada's Ellesmere Island disintegrating at an alarming pace, satellite images show.

Pet owners evacuate animals ahead of Hurricane Gustav, a western lowland gorilla holds her new baby, and more in our weekly roundup of animal photos.

A foot with intact toe pads and part of a tail are all that remain of a hundred-million-year-old gecko found in Myanmar (Burma), researchers report.

A new image reveals the "thousand-ruby galaxy," Mars's poles may indicate planet's climactic history, and more in our weekly roundup of space photos.

Coming ashore as a powerful Category 2 storm, Gustav sent floodwaters pouring over -- but did not break -- levees in New Orleans.

Spaniards start a tomato fight, Pre-Inca mummies are unearthed, Thai protestors stand firm, and more in our selection of the week's best news photos.

A rare albino right whale frolics in the water, a mother giraffe nuzzles its baby, and more in our new weekly roundup of animal photos.

The remote protected area in the western and central Pacific--proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this week--would be nearly as large as Texas and Alaska combined.

A distant cousin of the famous "bullet cluster" shows the same separation of dark and ordinary matter occurring as its two parent galaxy clusters collide at high speed.

An "exquisitely carved" statue of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, with lion-skin boots and a feathery beard, has been discovered in an artifact-rich site in Turkey.