Despite frigid weather, NASA on Wednesday hauled space shuttle Endeavour to its seaside launch pad in preparation for the first mission of the new year next month. It was 29 degrees Fahrenheit at the launch pad overnight — extremely cold by Florida standards. The move to the launch pad requires technicians to walk alongside the shuttle’s mammoth crawler transporter, an [...]

Fabrice Bellard beat the previous record by 100 billion digits on a desktop computer which ran for 131 days to complete and check the result. The number is so long that if each digit was spoken a second at a time it would take nearly 85,000 years to finish the number. In order to calculate the number, Mr Bellard developed [...]

A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters of Antarctica, the group said. The boat's six crew members were safely transferred to another of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's vessels, the newly commissioned Bob Barker. The boat is named for [...]

Just when the media hysteria over doomsday scenarios relating to the Large Hadron Collider has died down, along comes a visually stunning short film from L Studio called Rift that explores just what such a scenario might look like. It's described as “a surreal interpretation of Pandora's Box about a scientist whose failed experiment results in the formation of a [...]

While relatively few people were looking, an unusual eclipse darkened New Year's Day. On January 1 a giant space object blotted out our view of Epsilon Aurigae, a yellow supergiant star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Based on studies of Epsilon Aurigae's previous eclipses, astronomers expect the star won't fully regain its bright shine until early 2011. Normally the star [...]

ESPN and Discovery Communications announced plans Tuesday to launch the industry's first 3D television networks. The sports programmer will introduce a 3D network this summer, while Discovery is joining forces with Sony and Imax for a 3D network to launch in 2011. The announcements represent a potentially game-changing addition to the TV landscape, which only recently fully embraced another technological [...]

The 1950s and into the 1960s is considered the era of the Contactees; men and women who had encounters with usually fine looking human looking aliens. These visitors from other worlds most often said they were from Venus, but Mars and planets outside our solar system were also other Space Brother origins. Typically, the aliens spoke perfect English (or whatever [...]

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES AND VIDEO For many years, there have been cases where the 'human mutilation' phenomenon has been suspected as a cause or effect to human deaths though, most cases have been officially ruled accidental. A 1994 abduction case represented one of the most disturbing deaths of a human being ever reported. The victim was [...]