Elisha Maldonado

Man has already been jettisoned into outer space and taken a jaunt across the moon, but a new report finds that being able to launch human missions to asteroids might aid in the thwarting of potentially devastating asteroid strikes, Space.com reported.

Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir hasn't even been in stores for a full day, but new reports indicate GOP presidential candiate Michele Bachmann will be publishing a yet-untitled memoir in November.

Rejecting the notion that he called the shots and thus pulled the strings for President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Iraq War, saying it was the president's decision to invade and go after Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The federal government will distribute emergency supplies across Vermont to people and communities still feeling the effects of Hurricane Irene, which is threatening to become the state's worst natural disaster since the historic 1927 flood.

After Hurricane Irene forced a massive shutdown of mass transit in New York City, subway service has been fully restored citywide, NBC New York reported.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called President Barack Obama a 'DDD' president, clearly a criticism following the downgrading of the United States' AAA credit rating to AA+ by Standard & Poor's.

In seeming disregard, or perhaps in spite of it, Ai Weiwei broke the conditions of his release from a detention in Beijing to issue a scathing attack on the Chinese government in an online editorial published by Newsweek.

Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is in a coma and may not survive, a source close to Jeffs said.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell may have voted for President Barack Obama in 2008, but that doesn't mean he's backing him for re-election in 2012.

Not disguising his complete aversion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 2012 Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said he believes the country would be better off without it.

Reporting live about Hurricane from Ocean City, Maryland Sunday, Tucker Barnes, a TV reporter for WTTG, was drenched in what he described as organic matter that doesn't taste great.

A final decision on whether to cut power to Lower Manhattan due to storm surges has not been reached, said New York power utility Consolidated Edison, or Con-Ed, said Sunday, but flooding in the area appeared to be less severe than expected.

In a discovery bound to make many women happy, astronomers have found the single largest discovery of diamonds on a planet 4,000 light-years away, as part of the Milky Way's plane of stars.

The U.S. believes al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, Attiya Abd al-Rahman, was killed earlier this week in the tribal areas of Pakistan, U.S. officials said Saturday.

Slowly following its chartered course up the East Coast, Hurricane Irene has already claimed its first lives: A North Carolina man killed outside his home by a tree limb that blew down this morning and another who reportedly died of a heart attack, ABC News reported.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the military is standing by, preparing to offer aid in response to Hurricane Irene, with roughly 101,000 National Guard forces available to governors of East Coast states, if needed.

Hurricane Irene promises to ruin everyone's weekend plans, to say the least, and the storm has already started by delaying Sunday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial event, pushing the event to September or October.

In mid-August, political operative Karl Rove stoked the flames of hope when he told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he sensed New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was faltering in his determination to not make a presidential run.

Hurricane Irene claimed its first American casualties Thursday when eight people were injured in South Florida, and as the hurricane continues its path of the East Coast.

Gathering strength as she morphs into a major Category 4 storm, Hurricane Irene continues her assault threat on the East Coast. But even she can't slow preparations for NASA's upcoming launches from Florida's Space Coast, including a moon-studying mission slated to start Sept. 8, the space agency said.

The 5.8 earthquake that rumbled through Washington D.C. on Tuesday didn't leave the city unscathed. Instead, it went straight for some of its most-loved treasures: the Washington Monument and National Cathedral.

While the GOP presidential candidates debate the proper approach to creating jobs, New Hampshire's new minimum wage restriction law that lowers the minimum wage to match the federal one of $7.25 an hour has gone into effect.

Shepard Fairy, the Los Angeles street artist who won international acclaim for creating the popular "Hope" poster that became the image of President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was reportedly assaulted last weekend at the opening of his exhibition at a gallery in Copenhagen.

Just when it seemed like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had the GOP nomination in the bag, Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the race and leapfrogged him to steal the lead -- and by double digits - in the latest poll.

In a face-to-face meeting with the Tea Party supporters Monday night in Iowa, President Barack Obama got served a scalding cuppa vitriol.

Stoking the flames of hope, Karl Rove said he senses that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Wisconsin U.S. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, are beginning to falter in their determination against a run for the presidency.

Building him up only to tear him right back down, former President Bill Clinton called Texas. Gov. Rick Perry a "good-looking rascal" before slamming his anti-Washington rhetoric as "crazy" at a New York appearance Monday.

When in outer space, the view of the heavens is certain to be brighter than that of those on the ground. And with a stunning snapshot of a Perseid meteor bursting into Earth's atmosphere, astronaut Ron Garan proved this to be true, capturing the image through a window of the International Space Station on Sunday.

The already quite fit Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, has been getting exercise tips from the most unlikely of sources: Her new grandfather-in-law, Prince Philip.