Called Kepler-16b, the newly found circumbinary planet is likened with the fictional aliens-inhabited planet called Tatooine, which was portrayed to have two sunsets in the Hollywood epic Star Wars series.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said all 115 flu deaths that took place between Sept. 1, 2010 and Aug. 31, 2011 could effectively be prevented with influenza vaccine.
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying three International Space Station (ISS) crew members on board landed safely in Kazakhstan on Friday.
Breast and cervical cancers kill 625,000 women worldwide every year, reported researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a listeria outbreak that's killed four people and sickened others across six states including Texas and New Mexico.
A Canadian researcher, Ryan McKellar, discovered samples of colorful feathers that possibly belonged to an unknown dinosaur species of the late Cretaceous period. The journal Science described the discovery as the richest amber feather find from the late Cretaceous period, which was about 80 million years ago.
Three of the six astronauts who were stationed at the International Space Station, began their return to Earth on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule.
A fireball that streaked over the Southwestern sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.
Breast cancer and cervical cancer kill 625,000 women every year, according to a new study that shows the diseases are on the rise. To put the death toll in perspective, 625,000 deaths a year is equivalent to six jumbo jets crashing every single day.
NASA has announced plans for the world's largest and most powerful rocket that would be capable of launching astronauts to asteroids and eventually to Mars.
The Arctic sea ice extent fell to 1.67 million square miles, or 4.33 million square kilometers on Sept. 9. That minimum is more than one million square miles below the 1979 to 2000 monthly average extent for September, which experts say is an area larger than Texas and California combined.
NASA has discovered a planet orbiting two stars about 200 light years from Earth, it announced on Thursday. The circumbinary planet is the first of its kind to be found, and it is bound to pique people's interest because of its resemblance to the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies.
115 children and teenagers died from flu last year, according to CDC.
Florida has the worst reptile problem in the world. From 1863 through 2010, 137 non-native amphibian and reptile species were introduced to the state.
The Joint Commission has released its 2010 list of top-performing U.S. hospitals.
Researchers from the University of Alberta have uncovered 80 million-year-old fossilized feathers that may indicate the pigment of some dinosaurs from the late Cretaceous period.
Astronomers have discovered a planet whirling around not one but two stars, expanding the pantheon of known heavenly bodies to places formerly reserved for fictions like the twin-sunned Tatooine of Star Wars Fame.
Being overconfident, narcissistic, and even self-deluded can be good for human beings, a new study suggests.
Researchers used 'optical' laser tweezers and a super-resolution microscope to see the inner workings of white blood cells at the highest resolution ever.
A teen girl in Western Texas was charged Thursday by state authorities for faking leukemia, a terminal cancer, and collecting nearly $17,000 in donations.
Genetics play a role in what has been referred to as “fishy odor syndrome,” a study shows.
A multi-state outbreak of listeriosis, or Listeria bacteria, reportedly found in cantaloupe grown in southern Colorado, has infected 22 and killed two in seven states since Monday.
A brilliant bright light seen bolting across the Southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night was most likely a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.
Breast cancer is rising at an alarming rate as reported by researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.
A new form of yeast that includes synthetic DNA has been created by a team of John Hopkins researchers. This new yeast will help scientists understand how genomes work and will help them rearrange its genetic material as they wish.
NASA's endangered James Webb Space Telescope project has survived a funding vote in the U.S. Senate Wednesday.
Hundreds of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported observing a dazzling mysterious bright display in the night sky on Wednesday. Authorities said it was most likely a meteor sighting.
Scientists in UK will create an artificial volcano that they hope will be capable of cooling down the Earth by pumping sulphate particles into the atmosphere.
A research team from NASA has created high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath a desert in Northern Kuwait by using radar sounding technology that provides more accurate idea of underground water levels.
NASA has disclosed the plans for a rocket successor to the space shuttle on Wednesday. This rocket would be the most powerful so far to take off from Earth. The design would cost $18 billion and is aimed at a 2017 unmanned test flight of the most powerful rocket since the moon race's Saturn V rockets.
