An international team of astronomers has accurately measured the distance from Earth to a black hole for the first time. Without needing to rely on mathematical models the astronomers came up with a distance of 7800 light years.......

Strange beasts--including a giant rat, a lungless worm, and a vegetarian spider--dominated National Geographic News's most popular new-species coverage of 2009.

Using atoms at temperatures colder than deep space, Rice University physicists have delivered overwhelming proof for a once-scoffed-at theory that's become a hotbed for research some 40 years after it first appeared.

At the end of a painful year for Boeing's 787 Dreamliner program and for aerospace workers in Washington -- a year of technical trouble, costly delays and a management decision to build a second assembly line outside the state -- the new airplane is finall

Long, long ago, some of the first dinosaurs walked the Earth. But scientists have not known with any confidence where those initial dino prints were made. Much more recently, hikers stumbled

This photo caused tremendous excitement when released by NASA on November 10, 2009. The Galactic Center we cannot 'see' with our eyes has been made visible as never before by the genius of the digital image, technician-artists at NASA. Pink and blue repre

After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning the planet.

On Tuesday evening, December 8th, thousands of physicists around the world cheered as CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashed together subatomic particles at the highest energies ever reached by a human-made accelerator and the giant ATLAS detector obs

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.

The Sea Shepherd's new futuristic weapon in its war against whaling set sail for southern waters this afternoon.