February 9, 2012 – 8:37 am
The giant black hole at the center of our galaxy may be snacking on asteroids.
February 9, 2012 – 8:19 am
Chimpanzees may be our closest living relatives, but they do not understand us as well as dogs do.
February 9, 2012 – 7:14 am
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Color pictures taken from Martian orbit feature the landing spots for two of NASA's dearly departed probes on the Red Planet. Can you spot them?
February 9, 2012 – 6:14 am
The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
February 9, 2012 – 5:56 am
The Vega rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Monday, an inaugural flight aimed at giving Europe a vehicle for scientific satellite missions, the first new rocket Europe has developed since the mid-1990s.
February 9, 2012 – 5:20 am
A U.S. public interest group asked a federal court on Wednesday to block Google Inc. from consolidating more than 60 of its privacy policies, saying it could make it easier for advertisers to target users.
February 9, 2012 – 4:27 am
NASA should contribute $20 million worth of hardware to Europe’s planned Euclid dark-energy observatory, but only "in the context of a strong U.S. commitment" to the proposed Wide-field Infrared Survey Telescope, a panel of astrophysicists said.
February 9, 2012 – 4:25 am
Some of you have seen videos of cats on iPads, but you can't begrudge these guys who have been given wall- and floor-mounted TV-sized touchscreens for chasing skunks and fish.
February 9, 2012 – 4:24 am
When the PlayStation Vita was announced, and full backwards compatibility with PlayStation Portable software was touted, many wondered how that would work, for North America it won't.
February 9, 2012 – 4:23 am
The previously reported "Skyrim Creation Kit" is finally live. PC players who want to mod with the tools that the game's creators use should head on over to Steam and start downloading.