At 8:55 a.m. Friday, NASA updated its STS-135 Atlantis Launch Blog, saying the ground launch sequencer has been activated. For now, it is monitoring critical commands and systems, but once the countdown reaches T-9 minutes and counting, the program will take over all of the vehicle's critical functions. The boarding process should take a little more than an hour and the hatch will be closed for flight at about 9:21 a.m., according to NASA.
James Murdoch announces that blighted tabloid News of the World will close for good.
Apple is rumored to release its most anticipated iPhone 5 in September.
Details of a huge Saturn storm with lightning flash rate 10 times more than other storms have been released by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Data analysis of NASA's Cassini spacecraft by scientists has revealed the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, NASA's official website said.
A massive dust storm swept across Phoenix, Arizona, on July 5, causing widespread destruction and zero visibility.
A massive sandstorm stormed raged through Phoenix Tuesday night, halting air traffic and initiating coughing fits across the the city. At its climax, visibility declined to zero.
A Saturn storm is raging across the planet, covering 1.5 billion square miles or 8 times the surface area of the earth.
The final shuttle launch may be hit by a wave of tropical storms, pushing the possibility of delay up to 70 percent.
In what started as just a small dot on Saturn's northern hemisphere has now evolved into what some scientists call a one-of-a-kind storm.
Here is a look at some of the videos of the Phoenix Dust Storm.
There is a chance for yet another dust storm in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, just one day after a massive dust storm tormented the area.
The massive storm that rushed across Phoenix last night with a wall of dust at least 5,000 feet high might look crazy, but the phenomenon is not all that uncommon in southern Arizona.
Phoenix residents awoke Wednesday morning to a city layered with thick brown dust and widespread power failures after a massive wall of dust swept through the city on Tuesday night.
A massive dust storm rolling through the Phoenix area blocked visibility and created dangerous travel conditions Tuesday evening as the storm rushed across much of the Valley at 30 miles per hour.
A recent report from ComScore cited some interesting figures detailing how Apple's iPhone and Android devices are beating the BlackBerry.
A very large and historic dust storm moved through the Phoenix area on Tuesday evening, drastically reducing visibility and delaying flights at Sky Harbor International Airport.
Eight American vacationers are presumed to have drowned after a sports fishing charter capsized in a storm and sank off Mexico's Baja California peninsula, authorities said on Monday.
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Conservative religious activists in Pakistan have condemned and protested a gay rights event last week sponsored by the US embassy in Islamabad.
The skinny Japanese competitive eater has established a world record of hot dog eating in a time limit of 10 minutes - the record, however, is unofficial.
A roughly 100-foot-long chartered boat called the Erik, carrying 44 tourists mostly Americans on board, capsized off Mexico's Baja California peninsula after it was struck by an electrical storm on Sunday.
