If the task of naming planets were up to the public, there's good reason to believe Pluto would still be identified as a planet - and not just one of the more popular characters in the Disney animated universe.
The evolutionary changes that have kept fish swimming in the bitterly cold waters of the Arctic have led scientists to one the biggest quirks in biological development, report researchers at the University of Oregon.
India's space agency successfully fired the main engine of its Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft and completed a crucial maneuver that readied the automated probe to enter the Red Planet's orbit on Sept 24.
Before you break out that tasty box of M&M's candies, you need to know Mars Chocolate North America has just announced a voluntary recall of its 3.40 oz M&M'S Theater Boxes for possible container mislabeling.
With a defense tactic that sounds a lot more intriguing than the so-called Twinkie defense of years ago, a man in Sweden has gotten his rape conviction overturned - by arguing he was sleeping when he had the sex.
One of the most widely-prescribed medications for type 2 diabetes has been linked to lower levels of thyroid functioning, according to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Chrysler Group is recalling an estimated 230,760 sport utility vehicles worldwide to install a new relay circuit that will improve fuel pump performance and prevent the affected vehicles from stalling or simply not starting.
After a 10-month voyage, America's latest robot visitor to the Red Planet. the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, has entered orbit around the rocky, rust-colored world, to study its upper atmosphere.
While arguments rage about whether driverless technology will actually work on America's streets and highways, the age of autonomous vehicles has officially arrived in California.
As a chartered 747 jet departed New York Saturday with the largest single shipment so far of aid for the zone in Africa ravaged by the deadly Ebola virus, former President Bill Clinton said it was a "good beginning."
Your sense of what's fair and unfair is actually a human trait that evolved from the need people, and primates, had through generations to promote long-term cooperation, say researchers from two universities in Georgia.
While researchers have long debated whether violence among chimpanzees is a form of social posturing or a response to human activities, a new study argues aggression is actually part of the primates' nature.
Clownfish, known to spend much of their lives among the protective tentacle shroud of host anemones, nevertheless take to open waters when young and can travel hundreds of miles, says surprising new research.
A cutting-edge observational instrument set to be aimed at Earth from its perch on the International Space Station - has been grounded by the same type of weather patterns its designed to study.
Instead of creating new stars, the universe's huge galaxies tend to expand by colliding with smaller galaxies and assimilating the mass of their neighbors, according to a new study by scientists in Australia.
There's now a new Website dedicated to America's efforts to further study and ultimately send humans to Mars - and get members of the public in on the exploration action: www.nasa.gov/solve/.
Iceland is getting a cold shoulder from the United States and European Union, as well as several other countries, which have delivered a strong appeal to the Nordic island nation, criticizing it over a recent uptick in whaling and urging compliance with an international ban on the commercial hunting of whales.
Venezuela's supply of beautiful women has always ballooned, but the South American country's ongoing shortage of breast implants has left its usually-robust chest augmentation industry all but deflated.
The first landing on a comet by a spacecraft from Earth will take place at a location European managers for the Rosetta space mission have dubbed Site J, on the upper "head" part of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The level of happiness and overall sense of well-being felt by a married man is more often than not a reflection of the happiness of his spouse, suggests a new study from the University of Michigan.
Nothing, says Mark Geyer, program manager for the fledgling Orion spacecraft development project, was easy about building the next generation-space transportation system planned to take astronauts - and others - into the deep reaches of space. "The pressure vessel, the heat shield, parachute system, avionics -- piecing all of that together into a working spacecraft is an accomplishment. Seeing it fly in three months is going to be amazing."
Beyond the notable fact a commercial space company will be flying its fourth payload to the International Space Station, SpaceX's next delivery mission will help kick off the orbiting lab's next era of Earth-focused exploration.
Similar to driving Los Angeles freeways during rush hour, the Mars Curiosity Rover took two years to travel about 5.6 miles, or 9 kilometers - but, it's finally reached its next destination, the Red Planet's Mount Sharp.
Residents living on the West Coast won't have the chance to live in the newly-formed states of Jefferson, Silicon Valley or North California as soon as some in the traditional Golden State had hoped.
