Satya Nagendra Padala

The top after-market NYSE Losers on Friday are: Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Quanta Services, KBR, Chicago Bridge & Iron, Pier 1 Imports, Kronos Worldwide, UDR, Alere, Nucor and Temple-Inland.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Banco Santander, Brookfield Office Properties, Jaguar Mining, Sandridge Energy, Radioshack, Toll Brothers, General Growth Properties, Endeavour Silver Corp, Bank of America and CVR Energy.

Astronomers at the University of Manchester have found an exotic planet made completely of diamond, which orbits a pulsar about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

Scientists have found a gigantic underground river flowing thousands of feet below the world's second longest Amazon River.

Astronomers identified a bright, nearby supernova Wednesday in the Pinwheel Galaxy, which lies some 21 million light years from Earth and is located in the constellation of the Great Bear.

Scientists at the University of Manchester found a rare planet that seems to be made of diamond, orbiting a pulsar about 4,000 light-years away.

Hurricane Irene battered the low-lying Bahamas southeast of Florida on Thursday and now churns toward U.S. East Coast -- posing extreme danger to some of the country's largest cities.

Hurricane Irene’s path strengthened to a Category three hurricane overnight and hit the southeastern Bahamas hard on Wednesday.

The Washington Monument will be closed indefinitely to the public as engineers have found additional cracks in the stones at the top of the structure.

It seems many of the animals at the Smithsonian National Zoo saw the earthquake coming before it hit the metro region.

The Washington Monument will be closed indefinitely to the public after engineers found cracks in the stones at the top of the structure.

The top after-market NYSE Losers on Tuesday are: Inphi Corp, Ivanhoe Mines, La-Z-Boy, DSW, Cobalt International Energy, Red Hat, Oceaneering International, PVH, Westlake Chemical and FMC Technologies.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Tuesday are: Dycom Industries, Accuride Corp, 3D Systems, Dollar General, MEMC Electronic Materials, Vonage Holdings, GMX Resources, Heckmann and Complete Production Services.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has confirmed that a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia at 1:51 pm EDT. It is the strongest quake to hit the Virginia area since 1897.

Hours after the initial quake, an aftershock measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale struck the region of Mineral, Virginia, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The top after-market NYSE Losers on Monday are: AutoNation, MVC Capital, Big Lots, Gap, LaSalle Hotel Properties, Western Refining, Robert Half International, Williams-Sonoma, Williams-Sonoma and Youku.com.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Monday are: Helmerich & Payne, Camelot Information Systems, Penn Virginia, Astoria Financial, Monster Worldwide, Masco Corp, Western Digital and Elan Corp.

The HP TouchPad is in greater demand and has been selling like wildfire from retailer shelves than ever before after the company cut the price of its fading tablet to as low as $99.99.

An international team of researchers has confirmed that the presence of newly discovered deep-ocean circulation system off Iceland could significantly influence the ocean's response to climate change.

An Australian research team has said the universe is forming fewer stars than it did over 8 billion years ago because galaxies are running out of molecular hydrogen.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have now determined that the mysterious orange goo that washed up on the shores of an Alaskan village a few weeks ago was fungal spores and not microscopic eggs, as an initial analysis indicated.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Friday are: Frontline, Weatherford International, CBL & Associates Properties, iSoftStone Holdings and Strategic Hotels & Resorts. The top after-market NYSE losers are: Royal Bank Scotland Group, Accretive Health, Yanzhou Coal Mining Co, Clean Harbors and Liz Claiborne.

A new study revealed that global warming has been driving animals and plants towards higher latitudes and higher ground at a rate much faster than previously thought.

Researchers from Stanford University say they have discovered a way to forecast the emergence of sunspots before they reach the solar surface.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: MF Global Holdings, La-Z-Boy, Sanofi, Swift Transportation, Atlantic Power, MBIA, Salesforce.com, Barnes & Noble, Gap and Equity One.

The top after-market NYSE losers on Thursday are: LDK Solar Co, Hewlett-Packard, Aeropostale, Humana, GenOn Energy, First Commonwealth Financial and UBS AG.

The U.S. stock market had a mini-meltdown on Thursday as fears about a second recession in the United States and Europe rattled investors.

The mysterious orange colored goo that washed up on the shores of an Alaskan village a few weeks ago turns out to be a mass of fungal spores, not microscopic eggs as an initial analysis indicated, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday.

Earth's moon might not be as old as widely believed, as emerging new techniques date moon rocks to a more recent time.