NASA's Cassini mission is closing one chapter of its journey at Saturn and embarking on a new one with a two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets - Titan and Enceladus.On June 30,Cassini>>

Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.A quark star is a hypothetical type of star composed of ultra den

The centennial anniversary of the last big impact, the 1908 Tunguska blast that rocked Siberia, falls Monday, June 30, bringing with it a reminder of the very slight chance that a hunk of space rock out there might have Earth's number.

A fragment of a human jaw found in Serbia and believed to be up to 250,000 years old is helping anthropologists piece together the story of prehistoric human migration from Africa to Europe.

Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life - or, at least, asparagus - Nasa scientists believe.

What was before this universe is currently anybody's guess, but it is highly likely that it was preceded by a similar universe and therefore time existed before the Big Bang. The evidence to back this theory is said to be found in the Cosmic Microwave Bac

European aerospace engineers say robots will do a far better job in repairing errant satellites than NASA astronauts, and are cheaper. Have they ever read Sunstroke by Doomwatch Legacy author David Kagan? How do you keep robots from going crazy?

Secret service agents were able to catch the Nigerian scam artists in action, and the woman who was responsible for hundreds of thousands lost money just got a conviction. Fiedler

"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life whether past, present or future," the NASA lead investigator for the Phoenix Lander told journalists. Noted by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.

However hard you stare, you would still miss it. Researchers have found a way to generate the shortest-ever flash of light-80 attoseconds (billionths of a billionth of a second) long. Such flashes have already been used to capture an image of a laser puls