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Three Nasa astronauts will be returning to Earth on Friday after spending more than five months on the International Space Station (ISS).

A new study suggests that a planet is attacking a nearby planet which is 880 light-years from Earth with a storm of X-rays that is hundred thousand times more powerful than what Earth receives from the Sun.

Astronomers have observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby cool brown dwarf that may indicate a massive storm ever seen on a planet.

An 8-year-old autistic boy who disappeared on Monday morning in Southern California was found safe after more than 24 hours in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Scientists have found that a star is brutally bombarding a planet close by with a barrage of X-rays that are almost hundred thousand times stronger than what our planet receives from the sun.

A star is brutally attacking its close-orbiting planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times stronger than what Earth receives from the sun, a new study has found.

Though Apple has not announced anything officially about the highly anticipated iPhone 5, rumors about the probable specifications (based on details embedded in the beta version of iOS 5 and improvements expected on the next iPhone), have turned cacophonous on the web.

An autistic boy who disappeared on Monday in Southern California was found safe on Tuesday in a rare happy ending to a missing-child story.

Cooler weather gave firefighters a chance to begin knocking down flames of three major wildfires burning on Tuesday in Central California, and evacuation orders were lifted for most residents in the fires' path.

A single star is brutally attacking a close by alien planet, through sweeping blasts of X-rays that are causing mass destruction, a study has found.

Sweeping blasts of X-rays are destroying an alien planet as its parent star is attacking it, a study has found.

Good news for Fall Foliage 2011 hopefuls: areas in the northeast pounded by Hurricane Irene and flooding from Tropical Storm Lee won't find the leaves ruined this year, according to an expert. Foliage hot spots including Vermont and Maine that were impacted by Irene as a tropical storm are getting ready to open for business, and reports are that foliage will be intact and most roads will be open.

A timeline of Moammar Gadhafi's rise to power and this his fall from power.

How does Kate Middleton stay thin? View the slideshow for 7 foods to lose weight through the Dukan Diet.

Growing fears of a Greek default sent a hurricane through heavily exposed French banks on Monday and hit the euro as investor confidence in the European currency area's ability to surmount a sovereign debt crisis ebbed.

The severe drought which has plagued Texas, and other areas of the parched Southern Plains including southern Kansas and Oklahoma may finally benefit from a developing midweek storm system likely to bring much-needed rains.

The highly anticipated Apple’s smartphone, iPhone 5 is heading towards its release in October and the company as usual, is still lip-tied and hasn’t let out anything about the phone yet.

Here is the list of the top 10 iPhone Apps that made a name for themselves in 2011.

Tropical Storm Lee dumped heavy rain on an already soggy U.S. northeast on Thursday leading the river to break high-water records set nearly 40 years ago in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes.

Had that fallen on drought-stricken Texas the entire state would have gotten about 6 inches of rain, The Weather Channel experts found.

Officials in flood-ravaged Pennsylvania said the levees in Wilkes-Barre holding back the Susquehanna were under extreme stress but they are hanging in there.