An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is heading toward Earth and will fly by it closer than the moon on Tuesday, providing a rare observing opportunity to scientists, NASA said.
Six men return from 520 days spent in isolation to simulate the psychological demands of a manned space mission to Mars.
The Iraq/Afghanistan Wars have been costly, but the United States' longer trend of spending too much on defense and not enough on public goods over two decades could end up costing the economy and the nation far more.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is scheduled to skirt Earth on Nov. 8, giving astronomers an unparalleled opportunity to make observations about the space rock. Over four hundred yards across, the asteroid is large enough to cause damage on a regional scale if it were to make contact. Luckily, it will just miss Earth, whizzing past at the decidedly cozy distance of 201,700 miles - closer than our own Moon.
As international pressure mounts on Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to drop his bid to put the deal before the Greek people for a referendum vote, and instead immediately accept its terms as drafted, Greek-American New Yorkers are once again shocked at the intransigence of their home country's leadership.
An asteroid will come within 202,000 miles of earth on Nov. 8--closer than the moon.
The glamorous and easy-going Riviera resort of Cannes turns into a fortified camp this week as French police prepare for the arrival of world leaders for a G20 summit set to be hijacked by fears that a euro zone crisis relief plan is unraveling.
Some big Thai producers of electronic parts could have their flood-hit factories up and running again by the end of November, sooner than expected now that flooding in central provinces has stabilized, but the picture varies greatly across industry.
Nargis Yadav lies in the arms of her mother in a small rural clinic in north India - one of seven billionth babies born around the world on Monday.
Flood waters in Bangkok and across Thailand are finally receding, after months of what eventually became the worst flooding in the country in 50 years.
Beijing on Monday denied a U.S. commission's claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on U.S. environment-monitoring satellites, saying that the committee had ulterior motives in writing such a draft report.
A court in Morocco has sentenced to death the man believed to be behind a deadly April bombing of a cafe in Marrakesh.
NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space Friday aboard a Delta II rocket after liftoff at 5:48 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California
Vancouver-based Argentex Mining Corp. said Friday that Argentina's new decree tax repatriation law will not affect the company in the near term.
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The world population is expected to reach 7 billion people on Oct. 31, 2011.
On Oct. 31, the world's population will reach seven billion. The seven billion milestone with projections of more growth, said Babatunde Ostimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Global population will reach seven billion on Oct. 31, with another billion people projected on Earth by the year 2025. The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century.
The large ice masses in southwest China are also decreasing, coinciding with warming temperatures, according to research published Wednesday.
The Eurasian Development Bank, a state-run joint venture between six former Soviet republics, has agreed to lend about $100 million to a Kazakh gold miner to help boost output of the precious metal in the Central Asian country.
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002.
Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.
The enormous German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is expected to strike Earth on Saturday, anywhere inside an area that stretches from North America to South America and their adjacent waters.
