AP - The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo ? her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday.

DALLAS (AP) -- The oldest gorilla in captivity, a 55-year-old female named Jenny, has died at the Dallas Zoo - her home for more than half a century, a spokesman said Friday....

BERLIN (Reuters) - The European Space Agency obtained on Saturday the first images of an asteroid 360 million km (224 million miles) from earth, part of a space mission which scientists hope will help them understand the origins of the planets.

The speed with which beetles evolve differing penis sizes suggests they are evolving into new species over just a few years

Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina this morning. Reuters reports that the storm was not quite at hurricane strength, with top windspeeds of about 60 miles per hour, but had enough force to knock power from about 10,000 homes.Hanna, which killed more than 500 people in Haiti, will likely flood significant parts of the Eastern Seaboard as it makes its way north. At the time of this posting, its center is over southern Virginia. [More]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons, scientists said Friday....

Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria is celebrating Father's Day with one of its Tasmanian devils becoming a father for the first time.

Tropical Storm Hanna may not be a hurricane, but it's still dumping tons of water on the US East Coast as it moves northeast this afternoon. Officials have not reported any deaths from the storm, which is bearing down on New Jersey and will likely travel over Boston very early tomorrow morning, according to the US National Hurricane Center. [More]

AP - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.

Instead of unloading vicious Viking warriors, these longboats deliver toxic drugs to cancer cells without the side effects of chemotherapy