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China is developing weapons that would disable its enemies' space technology such as satellites in a conflict, the Pentagon said in a report released on Monday.

NASA managers on Friday cleared the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour for liftoff on March 11 on the first of three flights to deliver a huge Japanese research complex to the International Space Station.

Boulders as big as soccer balls show that a thinning of West Antarctic glaciers has become 20 times faster in recent decades and may hold clues to future sea level rise, scientists said on Friday.

Fossil evidence of a cooling of the oceans 35 million years ago may have solved a mystery about how Antarctica froze over in one of the big climate shifts in Earth's history, scientists said on Thursday.

There was more than the obvious reason to feel blue for people offered in human sacrifice rituals by the ancient Maya to their rain god -- they were painted blue before being heaved into a watery sinkhole.

Any of the top three U.S. presidential hopefuls would be better than President George W. Bush at combating climate change, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday.

China is to test a manned submersible that can reach up to 7,000 metres below sea level, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing the State Oceanic Administration.

People indigenous to Siberia have strong genetic links to native peoples in the Americas, according to a study further supporting the theory that humans first entered the Americas over a land bridge across the Bering Strait.

India's maritime sector has sought tax breaks and changes in laws in the upcoming federal budget, besides faster disbursement of subsidies and implementation of port projects to help the industry.

Sudden, tremendous gushes of water from underground most likely carved out unusual fan-shaped geological formations with steps like a staircase long ago on the surface of Mars, scientists said on Wednesday.

Two big genetic studies confirm theories that modern humans evolved in Africa and then migrated through Europe and Asia to reach the Pacific and Americas.

The seeds of the "suicide palm", a newly discovered and extremely rare palm tree, have arrived in Britain for urgent study and conservation, the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew said on Wednesday.

Space shuttle Atlantis landed at its Florida home port on Wednesday after a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space lab to orbit, clearing the way for the U.S. military to shoot down a dead spy satellite.

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis landed safely at its home port in Florida on Wednesday, clearing the way for an attempt by the U.S. military to shoot down a dead spy satellite.

The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis left orbit on Wednesday and headed toward a landing in Florida ahead of a U.S. military operation to shoot a dead spy satellite out of the sky.

Space shuttle Atlantis headed for home on Wednesday with NASA pushing to get it back to Earth before the U.S. military tries to shoot a dead spy satellite out of the sky.

Space shuttle Atlantis departed on Monday from the newly expanded International Space Station and began its return trip to Earth ahead of a U.S. military plan to shoot down a dead spy satellite.

After an emotional goodbye ceremony, astronauts closed the hatches between space shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station on Sunday in preparation for the shuttle's Monday departure.

Astronauts worked to outfit Europe's new permanent space laboratory on Saturday as a busy visit by NASA's shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station neared its end.