Washington, May 16 (Xinhua) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously...

Washington, May 16 : Scientists are developing technology that could one day help in building three dimensional 'super road maps' of planets and moons....

London, May 16 : A team led by Raghunathan Srianand of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pune, India, has measured what the temperature of the Universe was 11 billion years ago, when it was just a fifth its current...

London, May 16 : Astronomers from UK Universities working with colleagues from Germany and Australia have calculated that the Universe is actually twice as bright as previously...

Washington, May 16 : New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggest that any liquid water that might exist below the planet's surface, and any possible organisms living in that water, would be located deeper than scientists had...

Paris, May 16 : Scientists have detected a key molecule in the atmosphere of Venus, a detection that gives them an important new tool to unlock the workings of the planet's dense...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 03:00 CDT Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, say they have shown a clear association between breast cancer and deficient exposure to sunlight....

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 03:00 CDT By Elizabeth White, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO - Must-win situations are not a familiar place for the San Antonio Spurs. They survived one Thursday...

The universe is dustier than previously thought, which is why astronomers now suggest it is twice as bright as it appears. Astronomers have known about interstellar dust for a while, but they haven't...

NASA announced on Thursday that new observations from its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. The findings...

In practice the web page talks to a web service, which talks to the database. That returns a data set to the service, which punts it up to the web page and the data is displayed on a map retrieved...

Private investigator Anthony Pellicano was found guilty Thursday of scores of federal charges for conspiring to wiretap and intimidate dozens of celebrities and business executives, including...

A cutaway image of the Barratt Green House Barratt Developments has unveiled what it calls the first zero-carbon house developed by a volume housebuilder.Barratt's Green House, which has been built...

"It is raining in Wenchuan. The county used to be a paradise on Earth As I flip through the photos taken during a trip last November, all I feel is sorrow."So reads a blog by Dazhedaren...

on the future of prediction markets - or, to use the CFTC's term, "event contracts." The commission wants to know whether it should be regulating these markets, and if so, what rules should be put in...

By By Robert Roy Britt Physicists have come up with a way to explain how information could escape from a black hole, an idea that's been debated since the 1970s. But the new proposal leaves the...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By DIANA MARRERO Washington -- The House passed a $290 billion farm bill Wednesday by a 318-106 vote, enough to override a likely veto from President...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 18:00 CDT WASHINGTON _ Sen. John McCain predicted Thursday that most U.S. troops would be out of Iraq by the end of his first term, leaving behind a fragile but...

Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems. The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in and...

Los Angeles - In a closely watched Hollywood case, private investigator Anthony Pellicano was convicted Thursday by a jury that found that he used illegal methods in investigations for celebrity...

Zarya module at 21:36 GMT tomorrow evening. Progress spacecraft are launched every few months to deliver new supplies to the astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the Station. The current crew aboard the...

NASA is expecting delays for the first tests of the rocket that will replace its aging space shuttles after they retire in 2010, agency officials said...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00 CDT JERUSALEM _ President Bush celebrated Israel's 60th anniversary on Thursday by hailing the Jewish state as a beacon of democracy and denouncing calls for...

Posted on: Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:00 CDT WASHINGTON _ President Bush Thursday used an address to Israel's Knesset to compare some American political opponents to Nazi appeasers and brand them as...

By By Aaron Gronstal Asteroid and comet impacts on Earth can cause catastrophic extinction events. They can also bring life back, new research shows.Many scientists believe that a massive rock from...

To have such a thick crust, "Mars might be colder than we thought," Phillips told SPACE.com. As a result, any liquid water that might be underground has to be buried even deeper than...

This diagram shows a comparison of the sizes and strangely elliptical shapes of the orbits of the pulsar J1903+0327 and its possible Sun-like companion star with the orbit of the Earth around the...

Earth Buses launches a fleet of eco-friendly luxury limousine buses - first of its kind in Las Vegas. Earth Buses is Las Vegas' first and only environmentally friendly luxury limo bus service...

New strong earth jolts have occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Thursday.According to Russian news agency Itar-Tass, the epicenter of the quake was in the city of Inyu,...

long and rocky road to get this lab to Mars in 2008. In 1996, the Russians lost a lander which splashed down somewhere off the coast of Chile. In 1999, NASA lost the Mars Polar Lander, and then...

The result of this, perhaps heartening to the astrology-averse, is that you don't really know which of Meridian's cruelly conditioned reflexes you're buying. For example, there is strong support in...

The newly crowned Miss Universe Australia Laura Dundovic hopes to follow in Jennifer Hawkins' stiletto steps.The 21-year-old student from Sydney won the crown ahead of 28 other girls at a...

The first Australian in space, Andy Thomas, is hoping to inspire more children into science and technology. Dr Thomas is one of a number of top researchers and eminent Australians who have warned of...

A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes...

TIRAVADE/KOLHAPUR: An insolent society would not permit him and his ancestors basic human contact, keeping him in a ghetto outside his village in Kolhapur district for centuries. Fortunately,...

CAPA CANAVERAL/FLORIDA: Nine months ago, NASA's Phoenix probe blasted off for Mars with an unprecedented mission to sample water on another world. Before that can happen, however, the space...

Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon received a warm welcome from President Lee Myung-bak Wednesday, about a month after she returned to Earth from the International Space Station. The two were...

mass extinctions on Earth, which suggest we suffer more collisions roughly every 36 million years."It's a beautiful match between what we see on the ground and what is expected from the galactic...

The Russian and European space agencies have announced a deal to build a manned spacecraft for near-earth orbits and trips to the moon. Russian news agency reports quote a spokesman for the Russian...

Roskosmos said in a statement Wednesday that the space agencies want to conduct the first test flight in 2015 and the first manned launch in...

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 12:00 CDT By Ryan Alessi, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky. May 14--While Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton appears poised for a big victory...

The newly discovered remains mark the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, snagging the record from the previous holder,...

Lush staff in Christchurch yesterday publicised the evils of too much packaging by removing most of theirs. Six shop assistants dressed only in aprons distributed leaflets outside the...

Curtis Wong, left, and Jonathan Fay of Microsoft in front of Microsoft's new website, WorldWideTelescope.org, which allows a person to take a tour of the universe with data fed from different...

Everybodygreen.com teamed up with Earth Day New York to honor the 38th annual celebration of Earth Day at Earth Fair 2008 outside of New York's historic Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. The...

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT Barely 12 days after Cyclone Nargis laid waste vast regions of Myanmar, the poor Asian country faced the threat of another storm churning in the Bay of...

Mr Obama is far ahead in a race for which he needs 2,025 delegates to win. That could happen as soon as next Tuesday when he is expected to win in Oregon. By racking up victories at this late stage,...

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar -- Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food...

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By David Espo and Matt Apuzzo Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in...

Posted on: Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 09:00 CDT By Kristen Wyatt Associated Press ELKTON, Md. -- Starting next year across the country, rape victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can...