The Mars 'Spirit' rover, having been silent for over a year, appears to finally be officially dead.

The earthquake in Japan knocked out two atomic clock transmitter stations, rendering thousands of time-telling devices in that part of the country useless.

As workers continue to struggle to contain the nuclear radiation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, levels of radiation well outside of the evacuation zone are approaching record levels.

Scientists at Harvard have discovered that the proper application of electricity could very well help fight fires.

Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.

X-Ray stripes have been found inside the Tycho Supernova, showing where the magnetic fields are, in not so many words, "right jacked."

Because a quote from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was used in forming the synthetic DNA of a bacteria, said bacteria is now accused of being in violation of copyright.

Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.

Scientists have found a brown dwarf star that they believe is only 207 degrees warm. If that's not cool enough, another star they're investigating is believed to be cooler than the human body.

Believe it or not, certain species of baboons may subject each other to a primitive form of domestic violence.