Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.
As tensions mount between Pakistan and India, Pakistani bloggers are going the extra mile to show solidarity with Mumbaikars.
Scientists said on Friday that they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.
Their work in orbit accomplished, space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts got the green light to return to Earth, but were warned that bad weather at the main landing site could send them across the country or keep them up an extra day.
US space agency NASA is to send a solar-powered mission to Jupiter to view the planet's unseen parts. The $1 million mission, Juno, will be launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida in August 2011.
Among the many grim predictions of climate change experts, the future fate of The Maldives stands out as a genuine doomsday scenario with the island chain nation facing nothing short of extinction.
Scientists and amateur astronomers have been combing the prairies in western Canada for a 10-ton meteorite that lit the sky and exploded with the force of 300 tons of dynamite, according to experts from the Canadian Space Agency.
Indian and Pakistani hackers are engaged in a round of tit-for-tat defacing of government-run websites of the two countries, targeting such major organisations as India's oil and gas major ONGC and its Pakistani counterpart OGRA.
The Dresden Institute of Technology collective intelligence expert Dirk Helbing and his team set up an ant highway with two routes of different widths from the nest to some sugar syrup, according to their findings, published in New Scientist.
With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.
Standing in the shadow of a massive windmill, Mayor Tomasz Koprowiak thinks part of the answer to Poland kicking its coal habit is blowing in the wind and growing in farmers' fields.
Facebook began legal action against Guerbuez in August, claiming that he had managed to obtain the passwords of Facebook users and was bombarding them with millions of messages about sexual products and drugs.
Britain is set to launch its maiden moon mission to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes, weeks after India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit.
Japanese hospitals are running a clinical trial on the world's first custom-made bones which would fit neatly into patients' skulls and eventually give way to real bones.
YouTube has broadcast its first live event, an extravaganza which was part concert and part variety show and which drew comments from viewers ranging from "AWESOME!" to "train wreck."
As per a new survey, purchasing digital downloads has emerged as the most popular form of consumer e-commerce in India, and the country is in the fifth spot as far as average online spending in the past 12-months is concerned.
Astronauts have finished the third of four spacewalks planned during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the International Space Station.
A leading researcher says one of the largest meteors to streak over Canada in the last decade broke up into pieces that may have landed in central Saskatchewan.
Doctors of the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi claimed to have set right a problem in a sexagenarian's main blood vessel without an open chest surgery.- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint.
US military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives.
Google, in a posting on its official blog, has said a new feature known as SearchWiki allows users to personalize search results by editing them according to their own preferences.
It's taken more than a century, but Einstein's celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists.
The American space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet.
A team at the Spanish National Cancer Centre in Madrid has found evidence that a naturally occurring substance, which can create "immortal cells," could be the key ingredient in the fountain of eternal youth.
