Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue -- the name has nothing t

As usual, Beck's hysterical rantings have no basis in reality or fact and as usual the same dedicated collection of wing-nuts and conspiracy theorists have picked up the story as gospel truth without even the slightest degree of skepticism or doubt.

Astronomers said Wednesday that they had discovered a planet composed mostly of water.

While the new planet, dubbed GJ 1214b, is too big to be considered Earthlike, it comes pretty close. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,194 7868,00.html?cnn=yes#ixzz0ZuT35LKC

New, un-filtered images were revealed, today, from the team claiming to have discovered a previously unknown and submerged ancient city on the sea floor, in the Caribbean.

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature.

Residents of Norway were treated to an incredible lightshow; They finally resolved the mystery by reporting that a new Russian submarine-based intercontinental missile had suffered failure in its third stage: Skjold in northern Norway on Dec. 9

In a new research, scientists have revealed how mercury pollution is affecting Arctic animals like the polar bear. The research, led by biogeochemists Travis Horton of the University of Canterbury and Joel Blum of the University of Michigan, lays the

Among all of the buzzwords about "light-speed DNS" and "real time," there have been few events that really drive home the point of just how fast technology and its users are. The Tiger Woods affair was a hole-in-one for the Internet's quick turnaround

Astronomers have published an image of the coolest planet outside our solar system that has been pictured directly.