Moon

NASA launched its first moon shot in ten years Thursday, sending up a pair of unmanned science probes from Cape Carneveral that will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a green new deal on climate change on Thursday and urged for a final push in negotiations ahead of a key summit to be held in Copenhagen in December.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, in a move that could attract investment and help stabilize the country, officials said on Monday.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to release detained activists and said such a move would help unlock international humanitarian support.

Vanessa Hudgens won't be starring in Twilight sequel New Moon - because the part she reportedly auditioned for will not happen until the third movie.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday said he's embarking on a Mideast tour to press for Israel and Hamas to immediately stop fighting and allow humanitarian aid into the devastated Palestinian territory.

NASA released new images Wednesday of the moon's south pole region, a potential landing spot for humans or robotic lunar missions, demonstrating the surface is rockier than previously thought and has peaks as high as 2.5 miles along with deep craters.

Governments must do more to fight global warming, spurred by a new U.N. scientific report and damage to nature that is already as frightening as science fiction, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday.

China launched its first lunar probe, the Chang'e I, on Wednesday, named after an ancient Chinese mythology figure.