There is only one brown dwarf for every six stars in our celestial backyard.
According to observers, body parts lay scattered and there was stench of burnt flesh in the air.
The last two weeks have seen an incredible surge of violence in Syria as a string of terrible massacres have been uncovered.
Floating dock from Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami poses threat to ecosystem
Shocking video shows triumphant soldiers dragging and stacking corpses to burn them - while international condemnation goes on.
Profile of Shower Posse leader Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the scourge of Kingsotn, Jamica, who is to be sentenced for drug trafficking in New York.
Tuareg rebels clashes with Islamist militants over imposition of Sharia in northern Mali
Hackers are reportedly trying to infiltrate South Korea's information system and steal military secrets.
The Varroa mite which causes Deformed Wing Virus is one 18 viruses that affects bees.
Women and children among dead as government workers' bus targeted by unknown killers in northwest Pakistan.
The girl having her back burned with napalm was photographed by Nick Ut on 8 June, 1972. Nothing is seen in the background of the photograph except the smoke, which resulted from a US napalm attack.
Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, who attacked two female MPs in a live broadcast, allegedly hiding from police in the party's HQ.
United Nations monitors in Syria said they will renew attempts to access the site of the latest massacre in the village of al-Kubeir.
Days after Benjamin Netanyahu quashes illegal settlers' building in Ulpana, massive new build programme unveiled.
Discovery has great significance because earlier scientists had believed that it is impossible for microscopic marine plants or phytoplankton to grow underneath thick ice.
Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to protect Britain's interest in the eurozone.
While the weather is expected to ease up on Saturday, Sunday could see some areas in England experiencing heavy rain.
Team investigating slaughter of civilians in Hama escape injury in attack as UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and special envoy Kofi Annan warn of civil war.
An international team of scientists finds that geoengineering projects could lead to less rainfall in Europe and North America.
Researchers from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find that state tobacco control policies are effective in curbing smoking during pregnancy.
With his peace plan in tatters and reports of fresh slaughter in central province of Hama, peace envoy addresses UN in New York.
Girlfriend of Miami flesh-eater Rudy Eugene told press conference that he was religious and didn't take hard drugs
White House reaching limits of patience with Pakistan's perceived continued failure to tackle terrorism threat.
Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has a long track of terrorising immigrants, leftists and journalists - especially women.
Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army is continuing to hunt down children after abducting more than 600 of them in the last two years.
Intisar Sharif Abdallah, a mother of three, sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Sudan.
Nearly 100 species of birds in the Amazon are at the highest ever risk of extinction, according to a recent report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Palestinian jailed footballer al-Sarsak facing death as he enters in his 80th day of hunger strike.
Anti-Bashar al-Assad activists say they have found more than 70 bodies and point to Syrian security forces and regime loyalists as the killers.
Spokesman for far-right Golden Dawn party assaulted two woman left-wing MPs during live TV debate on Greek TV>