While we watch the modern-day achievements of those involved in space exploration, it's important to never forget those who went before.

A Maryland police officer is being hailed after saving a student from an oncoming car Friday, and instead taking a hit herself.

Fatima Wood said that she and her young children were struggling to make it out of the 19-story building as smoke quickly filled the hallway

The dog named Tinsley had a purpose: to take police to the scene of an accident, where two people — including her owner — lay badly injured.

Jerry Isley received earlier this year a rather unusual gift from an unlikely source, an acquaintance he’d met in person once or twice.

Bear, a five-year-old high-energy dog tasked with finding Koalas injured in Australia's devastating bushfires, has rescued 100 marsupials.

Lily Swanson had been walking the family's Rottweiler Isobel close to their home when a strong burning smell in Hough Lane made her stop.

Picture a very special episode of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” — plopped right in the middle of an unassuming country farm.

A couple in their 90s from Phoenix was recovering at UCSD Medical Center along with one of the good Samaritans who pulled them from the car.

A dog named Baekgu has become Korea's first honorary 119 rescue dog after playing a critical role in the search for a missing elderly woman.

Lily Swanson had been walking the family's Rottweiler Isobel close to their home when a strong burning smell in Hough Lane made her stop.

A Nashville helicopter pilot saved a dozen people trapped on roofs or at their homes during catastrophic flooding

A 97-year-old former US soldier has been reunited with three Italian siblings he saved as children during WWII.

A swimmer stranded two and a half miles from shore in the icy waters of Tralee Bay, Ireland, was 'miraculously' rescued by RNLI volunteer.

Donnie Wiseman of Davis County, has the scrapes and scars to prove he jumped on an 8 foot alligator in order to save the handler

Thanks to the actions of Piran the cat who meowed at the group until they noticed, the 83-year-old woman was rescued and is now on the mend

Girl’s mother praises ‘heroic’ Patrick Mungovan after rescue at Seafield pier

A grandmother became a lifesaver and hero by catching a toddler who fell 20ft from the open window of an apartment block in Russia.

Heroic police officers and bystanders were credited with saving lives when an out-of-control car slammed into a mother carrying her child

Officer Mark Conklin of the Jamestown Police Department responded to the house fire just after midnight on Monday