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Starting May 1, parking rates will increase by $2 per day for people parking at Portland International Airport's economy and long-term lots as well as in spaces designated for the disabled.

The global warming situation has become so dire that Barack Obama's chief scientific adviser has raised with the president the possibility of massive-scale technological fixes to alter the climate known as 'geo-engineering'.John Holdren, who is a member of the president's cabinet, said today the drastic measures should not be 'off the table' in discussions on how best to tackle climate change. While his office insisted that he was not proposing a dramatic switch in policy, Holdren said geo-engineering could not be ruled out.'It's got to be looked at. We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table,' Holdren said in an interview with Associated Press. He made clear these were his personal views.The suite of mega-technological fixes includes everything from placing mirrors in space that reflect sunlight from the Earth, to fertilising the oceans with iron to encourage the growth of algae that can soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide. Another option is to seed clouds which boun

A diffuse infrared glow that pervades space has been traced to individual dusty galaxies, thanks to a balloon-borne telescope called BLAST

ALMATY (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi and a Russian-American crew touched down safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.

A Russian spacecraft carrying a crew of three, including the U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi, landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, officials said.

April 12th was a big day in manned space flight history. Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space and NASA launched the first Space Shuttle flight.It was also the...

NASA's 2009 astronaut class will be the first in 3 decades with no chance to launch on a space shuttle.

Moscow - The Soyuz space capsule carrying US space tourist Charles Simonyi and a Russian-American crew landed safely on the Kazakh steppe Wednesday, returning from its mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Upon landing, software billionai...

Two astronauts and a space tourist successfully returned to Earth this morning in their Soyuz capsule after spending time on the International Space Station (ISS). [More]

A new study shows that despite exercise regimens designed to mitigate the atrophying effects of microgravity, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are experiencing dramatic muscle loss on their missions. [More]