AP - Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage — and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. Now, scientists are approaching mammoths in a different way, extracting DNA from their dense coats in an effort to learn more about...

SPACE.com - Three astronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took a short trip Thursday to move their Russian-built lifeboat to a new parking spot.

AP - In an unusual nod to American history, a national gardening organization will plant a tree Friday cloned from President Teddy Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill home on Long Island.

SPACE.com - NASA's Dawn spacecraft in fine health after rocketing into space just after sunrise today, ending a long wait for mission scientists even as the probe's own eight-year journey to two large asteroids is just beginning.

Reuters - A spacecraft that could serve as a model for interplanetary transport blasted off aboard an unmanned Delta rocket on Thursday on a mission to explore two giant asteroids between Mars and...

AP - NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments inside the giant crater a month after reaching the edge of the...

AP - NASA's Dawn spacecraft rocketed away Thursday toward an unprecedented double encounter in the asteroid...

AP - Oxygen, key to life on Earth today, began to appear on the planet millions of years earlier than scientists had thought, new research indicates.

AP - Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage — and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it.

AP - Critics who praise the "complexity" of red Burgundy and Champagne are on...

Reuters - Two of the nation's biggest power companies are teaming up with a solar start-up to create one of the world's largest solar power projects, which they say could make electricity at a competitive price.

AFP - Eleven new animal and plant species have been discovered in a remote area of central Vietnam, conservation group WWF announced...

AP - Weather around the U.S.A.

AP - The strong winds that blow across the Northern Plains have been chased over the past two years by a spate of politicians and entrepreneurs eager to exploit them as an energy alternative to fossil fuels.

AP - A tropical depression put parts of Mexico's Gulf Coast under a storm watch Wednesday, while Tropical Storm Karen strengthened to near hurricane status in the open Atlantic...

AP - Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and animals in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the World Wide Fund for Nature said...

AP - A young walrus is exploring new surroundings at the Alaska SeaLife Center after first appearing without its mother about a month ago near the Red Dog Mine port facility south of...

AP - A jury awarded $175,000 in damages Wednesday to a girl who was attacked by an escaped gorilla at the Franklin Park...

SPACE.com - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has arrived at its first stop inside an expansive crater, where it is poised to reach out and touch what may be the ancient remains of the red planet's surface, mission managers said...

AP - The main section of Malaysia's largest aquarium has been shut after about 600 fish died mysteriously, possibly because of deliberate poisoning, officials said Wednesday.

AP - A day before President Bush's climate talks, China and other developing nations said Wednesday the need to provide food, shelter and clothes for their citizens must come ahead of global warming...

AP - People want their leaders to move boldly to help the environment but give them dismal grades for their actions so far, according to a poll released Wednesday that highlighted rampant pessimism on the...

AP - A growing tropical depression raised the possibility of a storm watch for Mexico's gulf coast on Wednesday, while Tropical Storm Karen strengthened to near hurricane status in the open...

AP - The main section of Malaysia's largest aquarium has been shut after about 600 fish died mysteriously, possibly because of deliberate poisoning, officials said Wednesday.