SCIENCE

NASA's Dawn mission to asteroid Vesta has revealed more images of the asteroid's topography and found that the asteroid has a mountain that is three times the size of Earth's Mount Everest.

Microscopic 570-million year old fossils found in China could be the oldest sample of animal life found to date.

Space is a vast and dangerous place. The enormous distances between the stars means that it would take centuries to reach the nearest star to our solar system. Alpha Centauri is only 4.27 light years from the Sun but it would still take about 50,000 years on our fastest spacecraft to reach it. Given these obstacles are the stars barred from us forever? Should we even try for interstellar spaceflight?

The moon and other planets could be severely affected by solar storms and the accompanying coronal mass ejections (CMEs) according to a research by NASA scientists.

Children subjected to physical abuse or exposed to domestic violence have been found to have similar brain patterns as soldiers fighting in dangerous combat situations.

After its discovery of 1,094 exoplanet candidates on Monday, the NASA Kepler space telescope is expected to find more alien planets before the end of iots prime mission in November 2012, space officials said.

A newly discovered comet, categorized by astronomers as a “sungrazer,” is moving towards the sun and is expected to graze the sun’s surface in mid-December.

As the old saying goes, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and with modern times apple juice became the substitute for the actual fruit. Sporting the same vitamins and minerals, apple juice and other fruit juices became a common sight in different families' homes as an alternative to sodas.

There is an “unspoken space race” among Asian countries which may fuel regional tensions and increase risk of space militarization, according to policy experts.

Touchscreens of the Future will be able to Touch Back and Bendable

Natural supplements are often seen as second-class citizens when it comes to medications, so to speak. This is because some of them have no therapeutic claims, and for some reason, people see natural herbs as something foreign compared to the pills they pop in so effortlessly from the pharmacist.

A 26-year-old veterinarian from Sydney was gored to death by a wild elephant while taking photo of the animal in a wildlife reserve in Borneo island, Malaysia on Wednesday.

New research show that risks of developing bipolar affective disorder is increased if a woman experiences a psychiatric episode within the first 30 days after childbirth.

In five years time you could be seeing a woolly mammoth roaming the Earth again. Scientists from Japan and Russia have discovered a well-preserved thigh bone from a woolly mammoth buried in the permafrost in Siberia and they believe they can clone a mammoth from the remains.

Do you want to know what planets are habitable? Search the answer in the Habitable Exoplanet Catalog (HEC) website, the new online catalog of habitable planets.

Robots make for fantastic gifts this holiday season. Even if your giftee is no mad scientist, robots still make for cool and unique gifts. Robots are readily available in many retail stores and websites. Owning robots isn't the just for scientists and the ultra-rich. Here are some affordable robots for Christmas.

The earthquake that hit Japan on March 11 triggered the long-hypothesized "merging tsunami," researchers said, noting that data from NASA and European radar satellites captured at least two wave fronts that doubled the disaster's intensity.

Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is currently in a 299 kilometer orbit and is slowly descending towards the Earth’s atmosphere.

Astronomers have reported that they have found and measured one of the largest black holes found in the universe as of late.

A crocodile is the suspect in the death of a 49-year-old Cairns fisherman and barge skipper. Queensland police said on Wednesday that they suspect a reptile after they recovered the body of David Fordson with signs of injury caused by a marine animal.

Aside from basic movement, what experts need to understand now is how difficulty in movement brought about by stroke occurs and how the brain processes it. That is why researchers at Queen's University studied how the brain corrects movement after being hit or bumped, in the hopes of understanding the difficulties in movement.

Cancer is a serious matter that must be dealt with. And unfortunately, treatment for such a lethal disease - chemotherapy - not only kills cancer cells thus preventing them from dividing, but also harms other cells that are normal in the body. It is common knowledge that chemotherapy, though very effective at treating cancer, can leave its weary patients with some side effects.

A Japanese whale hunting vessel set off Tuesday for the Antarctic seas beefed up by Coast Guard patrol boats in anticipation of another fierce interference from Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling ships and activists.

Working is an essential part of life. Almost everyone is expected to work sooner or later to earn a living. However, a dream job could end up a nightmare what with all the different factors such as long work hours, traffic and commuting, and the lack of time for self. That is why flexible workplaces were introduced - making even a bad job, great.

Avid Aussie stargazers should set their sights on the night sky this Saturday, December 10 as a red moon will rise.

Some stars in the Milky Way could be harboring giant terrestrial planets containing up to 50 percent diamonds, a new study suggests.

Several hundred million light years away from Earth in the heart of a pair of galaxies are two super massive black holes that can swallow planets, stars and gases.

ESO’s Very Large Telescope has spotted the fastest rotating star known to date, rotating at more than two million kilometers per hour, more than three hundred times faster than the Sun.

A new study has revealed that 120,000 years ago, during the Eemian, the Dead Sea dried down, demonstrating how dry the Middle East can become during warm phases. The Eemian is a stage in Earth history when global temperatures were as warm, if not warmer than at present.