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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida - The six member crew of Atlantis blasted off Monday at the 2:28 eastern time zone schedule to begin its eleven day mission to deliver more than 27,000 pounds of spare parts to the International Space...

Dear friend, Please catch your heart in your hands. Now it is going to start again to understand the circumstances of the creation of the universe. The scientists of European Nuclear Research Organization (CERN) have repaired a Large Hadron Collider...

Architect Jacob Tigges has drawn up plans for a mountain... To be built on the site of the old Tempelhof Airport in Berlin Germany, the plans call for a 1,000 meter (3300 foot) mountain (called "The Berg") which could be...

for now Supervisors approve health initiatives to improve the county's chances of receiving federal stimulus funds, but vote against a proposal to discourage the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. In an effort to strengthen their bid for as much as $40...

The meteor shower will be visible just above the horizon, and one will not need binoculars to view the event," he said. The Leonid meteor shower produces an average of around 40 meteors per hour at its peak. It has...

In a major game changer for both the industry and the company, Microsoft has launched its cloud. Part of what's billed as the next evolutionary step in computing, the move marks a major expansion and investment. A company that has...

Norwegian scientists say they've discovered a mutated version of swine flu in two patients who died and another who is severely ill. The mutation "could possibly make the virus more prone to infect deeper in the airways and thus cause...

TOKYO: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has big plans, as it wants to conquer outer space to generate solar energy by 2030. The idea is to collect solar power in space and beam it down to earth, in the...

The Atlantis astronauts plan a high-flying arrival at the International Space Station today after a two-day trip from Kennedy Space Center. With mission commander Charlie Hobaugh at the controls, Atlantis is scheduled to dock at the outpost just before noon...