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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
“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 (...)
Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen play writers Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway in a new HBO film, but they'd prefer to keep their own lives off-screen.
At a news conference Friday promoting “Hemingway & Gellhorn,” Kidman said she likes her privacy (...)
Coming off 94 years of bad luck in the Rose Bowl, Oregon's scene-stealing fashionistas broke out mirrored helmets that threw off glints of light like sparklers, appropriate for the fireworks show that the Ducks and Wisconsin staged Monday.
With the (...)
A NASA spacecraft fired its engine and slipped into orbit around the moon Saturday in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.
Ground controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers and applause after (...)
Conan O'Brien's ratings are soaring as he nears a bitter exit from NBC's “Tonight” show, his ridicule of his network executives apparently resonating in a country filled with the unemployed.
His ratings Friday were 50 percent higher than they've (...)
Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien have mined NBC's late-night mess for plenty of jokes about their employer. Now they seem to be turning on each other.
There was a certain bite to some monologue jokes by each man Wednesday, a day after O'Brien said he (...)
When ABC's drama “Lost” ends in May, it will definitively end - don't look for any sequels or spinoffs.
The show's producers said Tuesday they've known the final image of the mythologically dense series about Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 since the (...)
NBC said Sunday it decided to pull the plug on the Jay Leno experiment when some affiliate stations considered dropping the nightly prime-time show, and the network is waiting to hear if Leno and “Tonight” host Conan O'Brien accept its new (...)
The failed Jay Leno experiment was great for business - at CBS.
CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said Saturday her network took in more advertising revenue for its 10 P.M. dramas because NBC decided to put Leno's comedy show on at that hour (...)
Charlie Sheen is back at work at “Two-and-a-Half Men,” and his producer said Saturday that the audience at the actor's first show taping since his arrest was “incredibly supportive.” Sheen taped an episode of the top-rated CBS comedy Friday. He was (...)
George Lopez landed a big name cameo in the pilot presentation of his talk show: President Barack Obama.
In a clip shown during a Tuesday meeting of the Television Critics Association, the comedian jokingly begs for a Cabinet spot from the (...)
Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard scored to give Chelsea a 2-0 victory over Inter Milan in their football friendly at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday.
The game – which pitted Inter coach Jose Mourinho against his old side – was part of the World Football (...)
Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet.
Images taken by NASA early Monday show a scar in the atmosphere near the South Pole of the gas giant.
The images, taken by the space agency's infrared telescope in (...)
Italy's Rinaldo Nocentini won a three-man sprint to claim the penultimate stage of the Tour of California Saturday, while American Levi Leipheimer remained on course for a hat trick of wins.
Nocentini, Hayden Roulston of New Zealand and Pieter (...)