On May 21, 1965, NASA released the Gemini 4 press kit -- in it was a surprise paragraph, one that would change the shape of NASA spaceflight history forever.

Wildlife experts in Jasper National Park are worrying about the future of the park's dwindling caribou herds.

Tropical Storm Alberto hovered off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts on Sunday, canceling tourist cruises, producing showers and serving as a reminder that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season is just around the corner. The first storm of the season that officially begins June 1 was not expected to approach landfall on the Carolinas' coast, but it prompted a brief tropical storm watch and...

Ink from 160-million-year-old giant squid is essentially identical to that of today's squid.

Sea Launch AG says its oceangoing rocket pad and command ship have departed their Long Beach, Calif., home port for the equator to launch a communications satellite for Intelsat.

A photographer creates a stop-motion video to drum up interest in the so-called "solar maximum," a peak in solar activity expected next year.

Researchers say attack caused property damage, but did not affect the experiment

When stress strikes, women are said to turn to their social ties for support, while men are supposed to become aggressive. But new research finds that these gender stereotypes don't always hold true.

Popular firewall technology designed to boost security on cellular networks can backfire, unwittingly revealing data that could help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, a new study shows.

Timing can affect whether females and minorities experience discrimination -- says a new study. Emails were sent from fictional prospective doctoral students to 6,500 professors across 258 institutions, requesting a meeting either that day or next week. Prospective doctoral students with Caucasian male names were 26 percent more likely to be granted an appointment when requesting one for next week...

Scientists have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean's carbon cycle -- the pathway through which carbon enters and is used by the marine...

Plants elongate their stems when grown at high temperature to facilitate the cooling of their leaves, according to new research. Understanding why plants alter their architecture in response to heat is important as increasing global temperatures pose a threat to future food...

The deadly magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit northern Italy early Sunday and caused widespread damage.

A new biologically-inspired robot could one day crawl over the surface of an asteroid or Mars and gather samples for study using lots of tiny, mechanical "toes." Aaron Parness, a robotics researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, presented his gripper May 16 at the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) annual robotics conference, IEEE's Spectrum...

A painstakingly planned photo expedition to see the annular solar eclipse paid off spectacularly for two veteran...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private rocket company SpaceX is officially "go" to make a second try at launching its unmanned Dragon capsule early Tuesday (May 22) from here on Florida's Space...

Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply...

Have you ever wondered which is worse? A cough or a sneeze? Curiosity sneezed on Mike Rowe to find out.

Tiny steel hooks attached to a flexible suspension system could give probes better clinging power.

Bats use a combination of cues in their hunting sequence - capture, handling and consumption - to decide which prey to attack, catch and consume and which ones they are better off leaving alone or dropping mid-way through the hunt. Eavesdropping bats first listen to their prey, then they assess its size, and finally they taste it. The work by Dr. Rachel Page and her team from the Smithsonian...