Earth & Space

Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.

The astronomers, led by Takahiro Sumi if Osaka University in Japan, reported in the journal Nature there are hundreds of billions of planets that have been orphaned by their planetary systems. The planets have either been completely ejected out of orbit, meandering through space, or are distantly bound to their stars at a distance at least 10 times that of the Earth's distance from the Sun.

Researchers at UC-Davis believe that there are a number of species of ancient dinosaur that were nocturnal, meaning they spent their conscious hours at night.

Greenpeace has come up with a new way of protesting nuclear power... well, it's not really "new," but it's pretty nifty. Not effective, but nifty.

New geoelectric imagery of Yellowstone National Park shows that the plume of magma underneath the park is larger than previously thought to be...

In 1981 the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' launched, initiating 30 years of Space Shuttle service.

On this date in 1961, the first human being entered outer space. Mankind's first venture was brief, but it would lead to many, many more.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have announced plans to begin researching the possibility of increasing photosynthesis in crops.

Scientists have devised a new system to keep track of zebras, cheetahs, giraffes and other animals with identifying marks.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the largest such reef on Earth, is in serious danger of becoming a dead zone in the next decade.