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Millions of NASA photos need to be scanned for icy objects before the New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto in 2015. NASA has teamed up with IceHunters to give you the ability to be part of the search.

Oppressive high school administrative policies are nothing new. However, for some tech-savvy students, the challenge of outsmarting school officials is both tempting and appealing. One student, faced with oppressive school policies, decided to hack his graduation cap to display an 'invisible' message.

Online, everyone can be beautiful or attractive. However, dating site BeautifulPeople.com recently sent out emails to 30,000 of its members, blocking them from the site because they were too unattractive. Is this a legitimate issue, or a PR stunt?

In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony's PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords.

Mario Ward has robbed trains, stolen whiskey and nearly shot a man to death over a dice game. Last Christmas, Ward was apparently the mastermind of another large heist -- this time stealing over $100,000 worth of gaming consoles.

Scientists have spent centuries studying our solar system. However, apparently we don't know everything about one of our closest planetary neighbors.

Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.

Once thought to be a dying breed of over-promised innovation, and overvaluation, the Internet I.P.O. is making a comeback.

Jets of lighting can shoot upward toward space, and reach distances 50 miles above the Earth's surface. Harness this and we have a pretty sweet anti-everything weapon.

No one can actually see it. No one knows what it is or how it works. But, after a five-year study of 200,000 galaxies, scientists are as certain as they'll ever be that dark energy exists, and it is tearing our universe apart.