Paleontologists in Turkey uncover a 9-million-year-old rhino fossil, slow-cooked by volcanic debris.

Tokyo glitters in an astronaut’s photo, a storm swirls on Saturn, and jets shoot out of a supermassive black hole in this week’s best space pictures.

Men and women differ when it comes to how much of an image they explore and where they focus their attention.

Lava belched from Hawaii’s famous volcano Kilauea runs into the ocean.

The story of 27-year-old Jamphel Yeshi, a Tibetan who burned himself in protest against Chinese policies in March 2012.

Bowerbirds build patterned courts to impress females, will stick with flawed designs.

The biggest crocodile and the God particle are featured in National Geographic News’s most visited coverage of 2012 discoveries.    

Carbon-based compounds discovered by the Curiosity rover may have formed during an experiment or come from Earth, scientists said today.

Pronghorn antelopes cross a busy Wyoming highway on an overpass built to help them navigate a dangerous bottleneck in their migration.

Fire lights an ice cave, hounds go on the hunt, and Manhattan goes dark in National Geographic photo editors’ favorite news pictures from November.