Majority of number combos picked for Powerball pot

With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes.

With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's....

Report: Michael Phelps planning comeback

Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback?

Is Michael Phelps planning a comeback?

A report Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio....

The first-ever commercial resupply mission in space delivers ice cream for astronauts

SpaceX Dragon roars: The first-ever commercial resupply mission in space delivers ice cream for astronauts

It’s one of the most expensive grocery deliveries in history. And it’s also the first-ever space mission by a private company to re-supply the International Space Station.

Commercial space flights to generate more than $600 million, study suggests

Commercial suborbital space flights should bring in between $600 million and $1.6 billion in revenue in their first decade of operations, according to a study commissioned by the US.

Tourism drives about 80 per cent of the demand for suborbital flights, which reach about 63 miles above the planet's surface before plunging back through the atmosphere.

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Facebook Says 83 Million Accounts May Be Fakes or Duplicates

Facebook's share price has fallen below $20 for the first time, as it was revealed around 8 percent of its accounts could be sketchy.

The social-networking website is now worth almost half what it was when it floated on the Nasdaq in May.

It has lost nearly $50 billion in value -- more than the total....

Space station science at critical point, NASA officials say

NASA's space shuttle Endeavour appears to hang off one end of the International Space Station in this photo taken by an astronaut aboard a nearby Soyuz spacecraft on May 23, 2011 during Endeavour's final mission.

DENVER — It's time to get serious about science in space, and the International Space Station is the perfect place to start, NASA officials said earlier this week.
"We are....