Space shuttle Discovery slipped into a docking port at the International Space Station on Monday, ending a two-day voyage that began with NASA's first night launch since the 2003 Columbia accident

Virgin Galactic has appointed the House of Travel Group as their New Zealand Accredited Space Agent

Scientists at a US weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for US homeland security and the Iraq war

A team of scientists has reconstructed the DNA sequence of a 5-million-year-old retrovirus and shown that it is able to produce infectious particles. The retrovirus--named Phoenix--is the ancestor of a large family of mobile DNA elements...

Wobbles or variations in the Earth's orbit and tilt are associated with extinctions of rodent and mammalian species, Dutch scientists said on Wednesday.

GENES involved in skin pigmentation have an effect on a person's skin cancer risk beyond their influence on a person's hair or skin colour, a new study shows. Women who carried one so-called "red hair colour" gene but had medium or olive skin, as

PROVING that the mysteries of space attract dollars as well as enthusiasts, astronomer Christopher Tinney has picked up a million-dollar grant to search for worlds beyond our solar system. "It's very pleasing to be successful in such a tough competition,

The seals shivered while on the surface but stopped or nearly stopped shivering during dives, even though their bodies continued to cool. Upon resurfacing, the seals almost immediately started shivering again.

A Chincoteague, Va., teenager who won the right to choose his own cancer treatment in court is responding positively to the therapy, his doctor has said.

Did you know today's Refrigerators are significantly more energy-efficient than those made before 2001? Conserving electricity not only saves you money, but also reduces greenhouse gases and other pollutants. . . .