On December 3, a Boeing 747 belonging to Air New Zealand is scheduled to take off from Auckland, New Zealand, powered in part by a new type of jet fuel made from a weed.

How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? Even more strange: how could two? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right shows an immense ring-like structure 30,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars

Pictured, a particularly spectacular rayed crater spanning approximately 80 kilometers was imaged by MESSENGER during last month's flyby from about 20,000 kilometers up. The rays prevalence is a mystery because space weathering effects such as dust ...

It's not quite on the scale of Jurassic Park, but Japanese researchers claim that they have successfully produced clones of mice that have been frozen for 16 years. Will this research help revive extinct animals like the wooly mammoth?

The Tampa Bay Rays and Barack Obama have made 2008 the year of the surprise contender, though one man predicted both successes before nearly anyone else - and he sees a general election landslide for Obama over John McCain on Tuesday.

Wildly interesting story of the lives and hardships of a variety of creatures that have evolved to live on the blood of other beings. Great info on how they are equipped to get their nourishment and how their bodies are adapted for it.

Scientists who conducted the first comprehensive study of the effect of bisphenol A in humans, report that people with high concentrations of the chemical in their urine have double the risk of developing liver & cardiovascular disease & diabetes.

We have an invisiblity cloak? Yep, and the Chinese can already see right through it.

Internet users are having content shaped and/or blocked by governments around the world. If you are one of those conspiracy theorists, then here is some 'truth'.

ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83,a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way.Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas.Messier 83 lies roughly 15 million light