LOS ANGELES -- About 250 miles above northwest Australia, a cargo-carrying space capsule linked up with the International Space Station, marking the first time a privately built and operated vehicle has ever docked at the orbiting outpost.
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MIAMI -- The fiber-optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela, long and eagerly awaited by Cubans as a speedy new ramp onto the Internet, is "in full operation" but only between the two governments, according to news reports and experts.
Cubans now ...
LOS ANGELES -- As the public joined the frenzy around Facebook Inc.'s Wall Street debut, well-connected institutional investors were hearing a more sobering message: The social network's main business, advertising, was sputtering.
The buzz around...
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa and Australia will share the location for the world's largest and most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array scientific consortium said on Friday.
Construction of the telescope is scheduled to begin in ...
LOS ANGELES -- For the first time, a spacecraft made by a private company arrived at the International Space Station.
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by the space station's 58-foot robotic arm by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ...
LOS ANGELES -- Scientists dissecting the remains of the disastrous 1980 explosion of Mount St. Helens in Washington state say that crystal formations trapped in volcanic rocks hold important clues about when a magma-loaded mountain is about to ...
