SCIENCE

A new generation robotic lander capable of performing science and exploration research on the moon, asteroids or on Mars will soon be developed with the successful completion of the final flight in a series of tests for the robotic lander prototype.

Lighting Sprites are colorful bursts of electricity that can stretch for more than 95 kilometers (58 miles) from cloud tops. These mysterious and beautiful lightning phenomena had only been captured in photos in 1994 and since then scientists haven't been able to look away from the light show the upper atmosphere provides. Now scientists from Tel Aviv University are proposing that lighting sprites can even be found in outer space.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is on track for launch in 2018 with the approval of the US Congress of the 2012 budget for NASA, which includes $530 million for the JWST.

Imagine one day going to an elevator and pressing the button for the top floor but instead of getting off at the penthouse or even the roof of the building, you'll be stepping out into outer space.

Science enthusiasts should mark May 20, 2012 in their calendars as this is the date of a spectacular annular (“ring”) eclipse that will be visible from parts of eight western U. S. states and in many other countries all over the world.

Daniel, the dog who survived the gas chamber at a county pound in Alabama has found his new forever home in New Jersey.

What dogs, cats even hummingbirds do when they get wet

E.T. may actually live in a world that is nothing like Earth. Astronomers are now thinking of expanding the habitability zone of a planet to include a wider set of criteria.

Astronomers have discovered alien planet number 700 and the number are expected to pile up as scientists improve their planet-hunting techniques.

Fossils evidence indicates that dinosaurs ate the first birds, as scientists long suspected. Paleontologists have seen a fossil bird inside a dinosaur’s stomach making it the first known evidence that dinosaurs ate their winged relatives.

Climate scientists are studying the underlying causes of previous mass extinction events to gain a better understanding of what may happen as greenhouse gas emissions raise global temperatures.

Meditating is a practice that enables people to go to a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. It has been practices for the longest times by monks, and is now fast becoming a way of life for people practicing the peaceful state.

Acne is a problem that most teenagers go through with shame and ridicule. And to treat this problem, teenagers, with their parents, often resort to oral antibiotics - little do they know that that is just the start of another problem.

My new dog is awesome. But I have a two-week vacation coming up, and I need to find a place for him while I'm away. How do I find a good boarding facility?

Eating is an essential part of life; it's simple and pretty straight-forward. The global population eating though is where it gets complicated. Supplying literally billions of people with food is tricky when the population keeps on growing.

Once upon a DogTime, we adopted a cat.

Some seals can trace and go back to where they were born even after years of spending their lives on the ocean, says the British Antarctic Survey Team. Find out more by reading the article.

Source says the comedian is looking for input from the former President on the food served in her new all-veg restaurant.

Performing a surgery while a patient is inside a magnetic resonance (MRI) machine was next to impossible until the invention of neuroArm, the world’s first robot with this capability.

An ingenious experiment in which tiny parcels of light, or photons, are produced out of empty space has confirmed a long-standing theory that a vacuum contains quantum fluctuations of energy.

Aside from the Gobi Desert images, Google Earth has revealed some strange images. Here are ten weird and wonderful images caught on Google Earth.

Liquid Robotics has launched four Wave Glider unmanned robots to chart the pacific last Nov. 17 2011 in San Francisco. It is their answer for the PacX Challenge, sponsored by Google Earth and Virgin Oceanic, where their findings will be available in Google Earth instantly for the public. The challenge in PacX is to cross the pacific, providing data about the ocean on it. The other participant of the challenge is Virgin Oceanic partnering along with Liquid Robotics to map out the Marianas Trench,...

Is there anything lovelier than a tree? How about a tree that doubles as your house's energy generator? A London company has developed an artificial tree that utilizes renewable energy from the sun and wind to power a house.

Rise in ocean temperature due to global warming triggered coral bleaching, the frequency of which is increasing, which caused the mass death of corals worldwide.

Scientists achieved a feat that sounds almost divine: creating light out of nothing. Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, managed to capture photons, the most basic component of light, within a dark vacuum.

Astronomers have discovered for the first time the complete description of a black hole which allowed them to reconstruct the history of the object from its birth around six million years ago.

Rainfall data from space collected by the NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Mission (TRMM) satellite showed that deadly tornadoes and temperature drops of up to 20% are expected to accompany severe storms in some parts of the United States.

Oceana recently called on the 48 fishing member countries of the ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) to protect endangered sharks, tuna and swordfish.

NASA has announced a one day delay in the launching of $2.5 billion Mars Rover to replace a suspect battery on the rover’s rocket.