Bitter Fernando Alonso has vowed to wreak revenge on Lewis Hamilton by helping Felipe Massa win the world title.

In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch. Beside him on the billiards table sits a chunk of rock the size of home plate. Dozens of purple and white crystals push up from it like shards of glass.

In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further

168.03 Million -- That's the number of motor vehicles on China's roads. The figure cover automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, trailers and other motor vehicles. By comparison, the US had 250,851,833 registered motor vehicles in 2006

The largest solar installation of any winery in the world is set to be built for Constellation Wines' Gonzalez winery in Monterrey County, CA by Pacific Power Management. Mitsubishi solar panels will cover 170,000 square feet on the winery warehouse roof

From the outside, the model lunar habitat at NASA's Langley Research Center looks like a futuristic igloo. The inside looks more like a space-age dorm room equipped with a laptop, magazines and a tiny shower -- everything an astronaut would need

New images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal a giant cyclone at Saturn's north pole, and show that a similarly monstrous cyclone churning at Saturn's south pole is powered by Earth-like storm patterns.

The Exoplanet Task Force of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee has released its report detailing a strategy for obtaining the first detection and characterization of Earth-like planets around other stars within 15 years

Astronomers are announcing that the precise gravity field of the lunar far side and the global lunar topography map were obtained by KAGUYA spacecraft.

The Cassini orbiter took this picture of the Saturnian moon Enceladus taken during Thursday's flyby. The Cassini orbiter came through its closest-ever encounter with a Saturnian moon with flying colors - and with