While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren't necessarily selling more copies.

Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, has died at the age of 83.

A group of major national research libraries says users now can search the full text of 1.6 billion pages from 4.6 million digitized volumes.

Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all for the first time.

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

Cat-sized reptiles once roamed what is now the icebox of Antarctica, snuggling up in burrows and peeping above ground to snag plant roots and insects.

The origins of the highest peaks in Antarctica have long been shrouded in mystery. Now researchers suggest they are remnants of a gigantic high plateau that collapsed as the earth tore apart.

Register your opinion on the Large Hadron Collider and America's role in the science world - then see what others think.

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei\'s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display.

The earliest that anyone who orders the $259 device on Friday - or later - will receive it is Jan. 4, 2010, the nation's largest bookseller said Friday.

Scientists circulated beams of protons in the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time after a year of repairs caused by a spectacular failure after the $10 billion machine was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault.

Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.

An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove.

Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday.

Scientists are in the process of restarting a giant particle collider built to reproduce the conditions of the big bang, Europe's CERN physics research center said Friday.

Set your ultraviolet rays to stun. Researchers have now developed a molecular on-off switch that can paralyze animals when they are exposed to ultraviolet beams.

Robot spy planes are harnessing alternative energy to make them more covert and longer lasting than ever.

New images show the "last meal" of a giant cannibal galaxy as it gobbles down a smaller spiral galaxy, which has been twisted and warped from being devoured.

Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.

You know what to get your book-loving dad and social-networking sister, but what about that seriously geeky pal? PC World\'s found gifts even geeks who have everything would like.

Contrary to those who blame the Internet for, well, everything - in this case, our willingness to believe pretty much anything - don't blame it for our love for hoaxes.

From the journal Science: How does nature pack tiny spheres into a shrinking space? The resulting patterns are sometimes surprising, and may point the way to new fiber-optic technologies.

A versatile, new hyperlens could soon give expecting parents high-definition baby pictures as well as provide ship captains incredibly accurate maps of the sea floor.

Teflon-coated frying pans may scratch easily, but a souped-up version, a nanomaterial 10,000 times more durable than the ordinary non-stick stuff, is headed for the space station.