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...

London, May 16 : A woman in London claims that she has seen an alien spaceship hovering over Golders...

London, May 16 : Two scientists have claimed that uranium could become sufficiently concentrated at the base of Earth's mantle to ignite self-sustained nuclear fission, as in a human-made nuclear...

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, 21:00 CDT Robert Mondavi, a pioneer in California's wine industry, died Friday at his home in Yountville, Calif., a spokeswoman said. The Napa Valley vintner was 94,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments.The three men aboard...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 21:00 CDT SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Robert Mondavi, the man hailed as the ambassador of the Napa Valley and the godfather of California wine, no longer owned the winery that...

The first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket visibly makes contact with the booster's second stage engine nozzle during separation during a March 20, 2007 launch. Credit:...

That's one of the mysteries solved in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the...

ROME: Serbian fourth seed, and defending champion, Jelena Jankovic dismantled Venus Williams' power game yesterday to advance to the semi-finals of the WTA Rome International, 5-7, 6-3,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Russian supply ship is docked at the International Space Station, making a delivery of about two tonnes of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments. The three...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)Venus Williams, of the United States, returns a backhand to Serbia's Jelena Jankovic during their quarter final match at the Italian Open women's tennis tournament in Rome,...

The folks behind NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have put out pictures of the area where the Mars Polar Lander disappeared nine years ago - and...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Experts from the University of Texas at Dallas are holding their breath as one of their devices hurtles toward Mars.The equipment onboard the spacecraft, a spectrometer, is...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT A top Bush administration official said Saudi Arabia has rejected the U.S. president's request to increase the kingdom's oil production to offset gas...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT Al-Jazeera Satellite Television at 1318 gmt on 16 May carries an announcer-read report saying that US President George Bush has arrived in Riyadh on a...

May 15, 2008 · Last week NASA issued a press release promising that on May 14th, they would "Announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50...

Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences,...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, campaigning in South Dakota, fired back at comments made by U.S. President George Bush and Sen. John McCain....

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 15:00 CDT By Linda Kleindienst and John Holla, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 16--Florida gay rights activists hailed the California Supreme Court decision Thursday...

Redmond: This is a different sort of Maps to the Stars. Microsoft has taken the wraps off an astonishingly vast visual guide to the universe that is powered by some of the world's best telescopes....

, as its new managing partner. Palo Alto-based Legacy Venture says it is a community of more than 200 philanthropists, foundations and nonprofits "using venture-capital investments and...

Posted on: Friday, 16 May 2008, 12:00 CDT The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, May 16: ___ The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that marrying someone of...

The result will likely cause many astronomers to revise their calculations of the intrinsic brightness of many celestial objects, Driver said. Until now, many astronomers thought stars and galaxies...

NASA's Mars Phoenix lander will land near the martian north pole to probe for the ingredients of life, but the south pole holds its own secrets. Both poles hold frozen water and carbon dioxide ice,...

The Kiwi team behind a film on the life of weightlifter Precious McKenzie are eyeing up director Lee Tamahori and actor Sir Anthony Hopkins for the project. Tauranga's Lance Morcan and his son...

By By Charles Q. Choi Peering beneath the ice at the north pole of Mars has now revealed the Red Planet may be surprisingly colder than was thought.Any liquid water that might exist on Mars therefore...

The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy...

Tokyo, Japan, May 12, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation today announced that it has been awarded the contract to build the "new Earth Simulator" ultra high-speed computing system for the Japan...

LOS ANGELES — Anthony Pellicano, the ripped-from-a-pulp-novel private eye who made himself an indispensable fixer for Hollywood stars and moguls, was found guilty in federal court Thursday of...

Seattle is Brett Dennen's kind of town. Not only was KMTT-FM/The Mountain the first station in the country to put his song "She's Mine" onto its playlist, but he's also played here several times over...

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...

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...

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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...