Space shuttle Discovery lifted off just before midnight Friday from the Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Atlantic coast, carrying nearly 8,000 kilograms of equipment for the International Space Station.

Space shuttle Endeavour is ready to launch today, Sunday, July 12. The Endevour launch was delayed after an electrical storm hit near it’s perch atop launch pad at Kennedy Space Center on Friday

US researchers have discovered a way to extract hydrogen from human urine that can then be used as fuel for hydrogen cars.

Most hardcore geeks swear by it; most others think that the world will end by it.

NASA launched its first moon shot in a decade Thursday, sending up two lunar spacecrafts atop an Atlas V rocket. The LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and a crater observation spacecraft are unmanned scouts designed to lay the first groundwork for the space agency’s proposed 2020 return of astronauts to the moon.

A expedition to an isolated mountain region of southeastern Ecuador claims that it has discovered several new species, including a bug-eyed salamander that bears a resemblance to movie character E.T.

In a 196-page report filed by the Obama Administration on Tuesday, it was detailed that global warming is bigger and badder than ever before.

If you can’t bring the scientist to the tornado, bring the tornado to the scientist.

Do you still remember all the different types of clouds? Well, there’s another category of clouds on the horizon, and these turbulent seas in the sky could be examples of the first official new cloud type since 1951.

After decades of searching, scientists have finally discovered where basking sharks—the world’s second largest fish— go in the wintertime.