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The Catalina Sky Survey, a NASA-funded program that searches for potentially dangerous asteroids, received a $4.1 million funding boost.

Scientists think they have discovered why giant squid have the largest eyes on the planet. Squid, however, hardly have a monopoly on extraordinary eyesight in the animal kingdom.

Google celebrated the 101st birth anniversary of Akira Yoshizawa, the grandmaster of the ancient Japanese art of paper folding called Origami, through a doodle made of folded papers.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured beautiful raw images of Saturn's second-largest moon, Rhea, and were able to observe two large impact basins on its surface.

This is the largest star-forming region near the Milky Way galaxy.

The Geneva-based trade body will uphold a ruling that Boeing got billions in dollars in unfair subsidies from the U.S. government, Reuters reported.

The World Trade Organization has broadly upheld a ruling that Boeing Co (BA.N) took billions of dollars of unfair subsidies, breathing new life into an epic trade spat that has already faulted European aid to Airbus, people familiar with the matter said.

Angry Birds Space, a video game based on the popular Angry Birds franchise, is the latest tool NASA is using to teach people about space all while flining birds to crush green pigs.

Rovio Entertainment is releasing its new Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, on March 22, and the new game was announced from the International Space Station - the first announcement of its kind from space.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 made headlines and set panic worldwide this week after NASA astronomers announced the 15-story-wide asteroid is expected to nearly skim the Earth on Feb 15.

There is much buzz about asteroid 2012 DA14, which is set to closely pass Earth next February but won't hit it. Even though NASA has said that the asteroid is not going to slam into Earth, doomsday sayers are still somewhat in a panic because the near-Earth asteroid is passing our planet too closely.

A solar storm expected to hit Earth on Thursday morning was caused by a massive solar flare that occurred earlier in the week. But what exactly is a solar storm?

Asteroid 2012 DA14, a near Earth asteroid, will not hit Earth in 2013 but will come pretty close, according to NASA researchers. On Feb.15, 2013, Asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass Earth at a distance of about 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles), which Discover Magazine said is well beneath many of the Earth's own orbiting satellites.

A mammoth geomagnetic storm, apparently the biggest in last five years, is expected to hit the Earth’s surface Thursday.

The largest solar flare in five years is headed toward Earth and could cause problems, according to NASA.

NASA will launch five rockets in five minutes later in March to study the high-altitude jet stream.

When at least 80 tornadoes rampaged across the United States, from the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, last Friday, it was more than is typically observed during the entire month of March, tracking firm AccuWeather.com reported on Monday.

Thicker sea ice is melting faster than thinner ice, a finding that brings new worry over the future of the Arctic.

British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites from potentially devastating solar storms, they said on Friday.

A stolen NASA laptop contained security codes to the International Space Station. It was one of 48 laptops stolen between April 2009 and April 2011.

When and where to watch the Mars opposition, when the Red Planet will be at its closest to Earth in over two years, online, via live stream.