Two astronauts face a tedious cleaning and lube job on Tuesday, the first of a series of spacewalks to resurrect a massive joint that turns one of the international space station's power-generating solar-panel wings toward the sun.
Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station on Monday, beginning a "home improvement" mission to double the living space on the orbiting complex.
A US funeral business that specializes in launching cremated human remains into Earth's orbit has begun taking reservations for landing small capsules of ashes on the moon, announced the company's founder.
Space shuttle Endeavour blasted off carrying seven American astronauts on a "home improvement" mission that will expand living quarters on the orbiting International Space Station.
Weather conditions have improved for Friday's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, NASA meteorologists said on Thursday.
The US space agency's 18-year-old Hubble Telescope has captured for the first time visible-light snapshot of a planet circling another star outside our solar system.
Sweating outside the theatre or worse, spending the badly wanted weekend running from one multiplex to another is a thing of the past now. An online DVD rental service offers the facility to rent DVD movies online.
China could become the first country to classify internet addiction as a clinical disorder amid growing concern over compulsive web use by millions of Chinese, state media said on Monday.
NASA scientists have said the Phoenix Mars lander has gone silent because of a lack of sunlight needed to power its batteries, after a five-month mission that produced a mother lode of scientific data from the red planet.
Get ready for White House 2.0. That's what many are expecting when President-Elect Barack Obama becomes President Obama in January and puts the power of his unprecedented Internet operation to work in the Oval Office.
Former US vice president Al Gore has said the Internet revolution that carried Barack Obama to the White House should now focus its power on stopping Earth's climate crisis.
Digg founder Kevin Rose on Friday shined light on a stormy economic landscape, saying the climate is right for launching Internet startups.
The Indian Space Research Organisation has developed a new satellite that could take images through the clouds, enabling space-based application in such scenarios to manage cyclones, floods and agriculture related activities.
Worldwide threats from malicious software that cripple computers with spy programmes, viruses and worms have increased 43 percent over the past year, Microsoft said on Monday in its Security Intelligence Report.
German athlete Wojtek Czyz set a new world record at the Beijing Paralympics 2008, leaping an amazing 6.50 metres, beating the existing record by 27 cm.
Catholic bishops meeting in Rome said on Friday they want the word of God to be heard through what could be considered an unlikely channel: iPods.
India's Chandrayaan-1 has begun its journey to the Moon - eagerly to find water on its surface - but there is a disappointing news from the Japanese lunar explorer Selene that has been circling the Moon for about a year.
The 12 million pound car is called Bloodhound SSC, named after the British supersonic air defence missiles of the cold war era.
The Democratic presidential nominee raised a staggering $150 million in September - most of which came from small donors who gave less than $100 each through Obama's website.- A rocket carrying India's first lunar spacecraft was launched from the country's spaceport in Sriharikota early on Wednesday, catapulting the country into the select club that have sent missions to the moon, after the US, former Soviet Union, European Space Agency, China and Japan.
Google on Tuesday released the open-source code which powers its Android mobile operating system and invited outside programmers to tinker with the software to develop their own features.
Chandrayaan-1, that lifts off Wednesday morning from Sriharikota, is India's first and the world's 68th mission to the moon, the earth's closest celestial body which has fascinated children, scientists and poets alike.
With the final countdown progressing without any hitch on Tuesday, India's maiden unmanned moon mission - Chandrayaan-I - is all set to lift off on Wednesday to launch a two-year space odyssey that will catapult the country into an exclusive club of moon-faring nations.
Owning an electric vehicle requires more than global-cooling ambitions. It takes guile, planning, sharp vision, a silver tongue - and a 50-foot extension cord.- Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, carrying 11 scientific instruments, weighs about 1400 kg at the time of its launch and is shaped like a cuboid with a solar panel projecting from one of its sides.
