When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also introduced new mysteries that have continued to puzzle (...)
In a few hours, a spacecraft should blast off from Florida on the hunt for signs of alien life.
Its destination is Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting the distant planet Jupiter.
Trapped under its icy surface could be a vast ocean with double (...)
A NASA spacecraft captured the eerie glow of lightning inside a swirling vortex on Jupiter.
The green lightning bolt was seen inside one of the many vortices that cluster near Jupiter's north pole.
Scientists are still trying to understand many (...)
Two days after a bullet careened through the bedroom window of a 13-year-old Pasadena boy and killed him while he was playing video games, officials gathered outside City Hall to address the tragedy as well as emerging patterns of gun violence (...)
Ahmed Zewail, a science adviser to President Barack Obama who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions over immensely short time scales, died on Tuesday. He was 70.
Zewail's death was announced by the California (...)
Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas was sent off for a reckless lunge at Liverpool new boy Ragnar Klavan, overshadowing a 1-0 friendly win at the Pasadena Rose Bowl Wednesday.
The Premier League giant locked horns in the pre-season International Champions Cup (...)
A NASA spacecraft has sent back the first pictures since arriving at Jupiter, according to AP.
An image released Tuesday shows Jupiter surrounded by three of its four largest moons. The picture was taken on Saturday when the Juno spacecraft was (...)
Colombia became the first side to reach the quarterfinals of the Copa America Centenario Tuesday, while the United States thumped Costa Rica 4-0 to get its campaign back on track.
Goals from AC Milan's Carlos Bacca and Real Madrid star James (...)
Eight-time champion Brazil was held 0-0 by Ecuador in the glamor game as the second day of the centenary Copa America tournament mustered up only one, albeit spectacular, goal from three matches Saturday.
Paolo Guerrero's diving header helped put (...)
Stanford barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, and Christian McCaffrey almost won the Heisman Trophy.
McCaffrey caught a 75-yard touchdown pass on the opening snap and returned a punt 66 yards for another score while setting the Rose (...)
Just a month ago, astronomers at NASA didn't know 2015 TB145 existed. Now the space agency is offering close-ups of the asteroid, UPI reported.
On Halloween, 2015 TB145 made its closest approach to Earth. Its trajectory sent it within 1.3 (...)
UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen completed a team-record 34 passes as the Bruins got their season back on track with a 40-24 win against state rival California Thursday.
Rosen, who threw two of his three touchdown passes to Devin Fuller, passed for 399 (...)
In any given year, half of all fires on Earth burned in Africa. Most are set by farmers to promote agricultural productivity and to clear land for planting, according to UPI.
But as a new study by NASA researchers shows, the fires are having (...)
A Maryland mother is being held on $500,000 bail after police say she left her 6-week-old daughter on the side of a road Saturday, according to AP.
Anne Arundel County police charged 26-year-old Sandra Clara McClary of Baltimore with child neglect (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1435, Oct 9, 2014, SPA -- Scientists said they've detected the brightest pulsar ever -- a discovery as remarkable as it is confounding, UPI reported.
Despite its small dimensions and modest mass, the pulsating dead star is burning with (...)
Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars.
Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space - the first time a manmade object will have escaped to the other (...)
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has successfully changed its orbit in preparation for a 2016 arrival at the giant gas planet, the space agency says.
In performing its first deep-space maneuver, the spacecraft initiated the first of two planned (...)
NASA's new Mars rover has beamed back its first color photo from the ancient crater where it landed, AP reported.
The image shows a pebbly landscape and the rim of Gale Crater off in the distance. Curiosity snapped the photo on its first day on the (...)
In a show of technological wizardry, the robotic explorer Curiosity blazed through the pink skies of Mars, steering itself to a gentle landing inside a giant crater for the most ambitious dig yet into the red planet's past.
Cheers and applause (...)
After an 8 1/2-month voyage through space, NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zoomed toward the red planet for what the agency hopes will be an epic touchdown, AP reported.
The fiery punch through the tenuous Martian atmosphere at 13,000 mph (21,000 (...)
Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there, according to AP.
Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years (...)
NASA said it's successfully launched its NuSTAR X-ray observatory into orbit Wednesday after it was dropped from an aircraft over the central Pacific Ocean, according to UPI.
An L-1011 "Stargazer" aircraft, operated by Orbital Sciences Corp. of (...)
“It's our first trip to Oregon, and with an eclectic crowd like this,” Ryan Seacrest said at the opening of Wednesday's American Idol. “There's no telling who or what we may find.”
Well, Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler found a (...)
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony were together again on Saturday — at least to promote their new project.
The stars, who announced last summer they were ending their marriage after seven years, appeared on a stage to talk briefly about a new music (...)
Getting ready to host the Golden Globes again, Ricky Gervais says he'd rather get laughs than gasps — but he cherishes the gasps, too.
Gervais drew a sharp reaction to his jokes as host last year, with actor Robert Downey Jr. calling the evening (...)