Image Credit: NASA Disney's space ranger Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11, aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will celebrated in a ticker-tape parade…

DOE has launched the H-Prize competition, offering a $1 million award to an individual or team that creates the most advanced materials for hydrogen storage in vehicles. Hydrogen storage is a critical barrier to widespread market penetration of hydrogen-fueled vehicles,…

WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected six universities that serve large numbers of minority and underrepresented students to receive research grants totaling nearly $30 million. The funding will help the universities establish significant, multi-disciplinary scientific, engineering and commercial research centers that…

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency's prototype lunar rovers. The Desert RATS -- or Research and Technology Studies -- in the Arizona desert at Black Point Lava Flow…

WASHINGTON -- NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, have rescheduled the test of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket. The static firing of the five-segment solid motor, designated development motor -1, is scheduled for…

-- MIT study illuminates thoughts and memories CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Researchers at MITs Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that rats use a mental instant replay of their actions to help them decide what to do next, shedding new…

--could be used in underwater exploration CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite…

The planets ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAAs National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean…

WASHINGTON -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data from a…

Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturns moon Enceladus. photo courtesy: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute PASADENA,…

By Marcia Wood In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes. In the United States and abroad, biofuels researchers prize these enzymes because…

Knud-niks, Neewalkers, O-dats, Keepers and holographic rooms. Aliens with two heads, security drones and food that comes in pills. These are some of the characters and objects that young readers will find in The Softwire series of novels by PJ…