Hurricane Sandy whips up wild waves in the Atlantic, prompting a rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard; cavers in California get caught out by flash floods; wild winds cause a crash for hot air balloonists; residents narrowly escape a landslide.
A twister outbreak in Texas leaves a storm chaser trapped; in Florida, dangerous riptides drag swimmers out to sea; a sudden storm hits a holiday resort in Greece; a giant wave crashes through a restaurant in Italy.
The LA Fire Department battle to rescue residents trapped by the flames in California; the biggest twister to hit the US for 60 years rips apart Joplin, Missouri; in Antarctica, a husband and wife brave extreme elements to set a new record.
Queensland, Australia is shaken by the most devastating flood in its history; in Kansas, two storm chasers track a terrifying twister; a base jumper gets stranded in freezing temperatures in Iceland; a destructive hail storm pummels Texas.
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano violently erupts; Good Samaritans in Texas rescue care home residents trapped in Hurricane Harvey's deadly floodwaters; in England a paddleboarder battles high winds and treacherous tides.
Examining Landsat 8, the advanced planetary explorer with a 900 million dollar price tag, which is designed to reveal complex and ever-changing details undetectable by the human eye.
An army of high-tech telescopes, led by Hubble in space, has delivered an unprecedented chain of discoveries about how galaxies took shape, how stars live and die, and how life arose.
Scientists win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that the universe is infinitely expanding in all directions, changing the field of cosmology.
Scientists look out deep into space hoping to measure the size of the universe based on the relatively miniscule portion of space observable from Earth.