Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought — if we

This decade is on track to become the warmest since records began in 1850, and 2009 could rank among the top-five warmest years, the U.N. weather agency reported Tuesday on the

Virgin Galactic readies for Monday's unveiling of SpaceShipTwo — the first-class space tourist's wonder machine at the core of the space tourism firm's suborbital fleet.

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger

Iranian authorities have slowed Internet connections to a crawl or choked them off completely before expected student protests Monday to deny the opposition a vital means of

Eric Horvitz illustrates the potential dilemmas of living with robots by telling the story of how he once got stuck in an elevator at Stanford Hospital with a droid the size of a

65 million years after they ruled the planet, dinosaurs are back

You’ve bought the big gift, the clothing gift, and maybe even the cute gift. But something’s missing from the pile of presents. Fret not, there’s still time to buy a stocking

NASA is still perplexed over the parachute failure that damaged its new Ares I-X test rocket during its October test launch, but otherwise the debut flight went well, mission

There's nothing like a 'best of the year' list for stirring up controversy. This time one of the most prolific list makers in publishing has inadvertently kicked up an academic

An ancient plaster wall painting and banquet vase that were stolen from Italy and turned up in New York are headed back to their home country.

A former school district employee is accused of using school computers in an experiment to find space aliens, costing the worker his job and the district more than $1 million.

A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too