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HOUSTON (AP) _ It's not easy holding on to a small bag some 200 miles above Earth.
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WASHINGTON (AP) _ Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception. >>
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside floated away. >>
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) _ Taking a big hop forward in marsupial research, scientists say they have unraveled the DNA of a small kangaroo named Matilda. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A stone-age burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family. The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. The pictures show four likely planets that appear as specks of white, nearly indecipherable except to the most eagle-eyed experts. All are trillions of miles away — three of them orbiting the same star, and the fourth circling a different star. >>
BEIJING (AP) _ A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The old moon has never looked this good. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Despite a nasty Martian dust storm, Spirit lives. >>
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) _ NASA's Spirit rover, which is nearing its fifth year on Mars, is struggling to survive after a dust storm sapped its power, mission scientists said Tuesday. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty water and a carpet of tiny crustaceans on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor are among the wonders discovered by researchers compiling a massive census of marine life. >>
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ Space shuttle Endeavour's seven astronauts will spend Thanksgiving circling Earth, and one of them — Sandra Magnus — will stick around for Christmas and New Year's as well. >>
WASHINGTON (AP) _ NASA chose a University of Colorado proposal for a $485 million Mars mission on Monday after a nine-month delay caused by a conflict of interest in the selection process. The delay cost the space agency time, money and science. >>
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ The space station's two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that proved to be tame compared to last week's work with explosives. >>
The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon. >>
The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. >>
The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the phenomenon, which spurred some of computing's most astonishing developments, from video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems all but limitless. >>
Painter Odile Crick, whose most famous drawing was a graceful sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, has died. >>
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: >>
Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: >>
The Deep Impact space probe found the first evidence that comets have ice on their dusty surfaces, raising the possibility that comets may have delivered life-giving water to a primeval Earth, NASA scientists said Thursday. >>
DEEP IMPACT: NASA's probe is set to hurtle into a speeding comet half the size of Manhattan and smash a hole in it. The goal is to view the icy core of a comet that may hold cosmic clues to how the sun and planets formed. >>
A European spacecraft that landed on Saturn's largest moon Titan twisted and spun as it tumbled to the muddy surface, scientists said Tuesday, revealing animated pictures of the final stage of its descent. >>
The Bush administration unveiled a $37.5 million plan Friday to erect a tsunami warning system designed to protect both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts by mid-2007. >>
THE MISSION: The European Space Agency's Huygens probe has landed on Saturn's moon Titan in a mission to provide clues to how life arose on Earth. >>
When President Reagan died last weekend after struggling with the mind-robbing Alzheimer's disease, Judy Wunsch felt a sense of deja vu. Within minutes of the news, the phones at her office in the Los Angeles chapter of the Alzheimer's Association began ringing, and kept sounding for days. >>
If NASA returns astronauts to the moon and then takes aim at Mars, the agency will have to go back to the drawing board to get the job done. The rockets, equipment and engineers that put American footprints on lunar soil have long been lost, junked or retired. >>
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