The rover's name, "Jade Rabbit," was picked through an online contest and inspired by an ancient Chinese myth about a rabbit living on the moon as the pet of the lunar goddess Chang'e.
On Jan. 1, the long-lived era of incandescent light bulbs will give way to the twisty compact fluorescent (CFL) and newer LED bulbs, which are 80 percent more energy-efficient than traditional bulbs.
2013 has been the year of the celebrity splits. Those couples who we came to love all of a sudden called it quits. Let's go through the list of couples who we questioned from the beginning, loved from the start and just hated to see break up.
Peter Gene Hernandez, known to the world at large as Bruno Mars, has another reason to celebrate his success in 2013: he has just been named Billboard Magazine's Artist of the Year!
Two of the biggest cellular phone providers, Sprint and T-Mobile, have announced that they are considering a merger for the first quarter of 2014, and the announcement has left some critics wondering if the move is, indeed, the right one.
Maybe it is true that the newlywed reality shows are cursed. Today, Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are officially processing their divorce after four years of marriage. The first Kardashian to be married on television and to have her own newlywed show, Khloe and Lamar, has ended her marriage due to "irreconcilable differences". Sources say that Lamar Odom is "fine with it."
One of the station's two cooling loops shut down earlier this week. Flight controllers think a faulty valve inside an external pump was to blame. The shut-down is considered serious and needs to be fixed soon.
It'll be the first device available on the market to relieve pain caused by migraine headaches preceded by auras, the visual, sensory or motor disturbances experienced immediately before the onset of a migraine attack.
The six-wheeled Chinese "Rabbit," which can reportedly climb slopes of up to 30 degrees and travel up to 660 feet per hour, carries an array of high-tech instruments, including two panoramic cameras.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani "congratulated Iranian scientists and experts on successfully sending a second living creature into space," the state news agency, IRNA, said. The president further said the monkey's name was Fargam.
The new math award will be part of the annual Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and Life Sciences program, co-founded by Zuckerberg, Milner and a small group of others in an attempt to generate public interest in science.
Corey Monteith's death is still leaving its ripple effects on Lea Michele, who fondly remembered her late boyfriend and former "Glee" co-star on "Ellen" yesterday.
Big Bird has made the official announcement via Sesame Street's Vine: One Direction is paying a visit to the world's most beloved, and known, street...Sesame Street!
The results are in: Justin Bieber has earned the most "likes" on his Instagram photo with Will Smith, making his photo the most "liked" photo on Instagram in 2013.
It was only a matter of time before it happened: a Southern rapper desperate for fame (and attention) has released a song called "Paul Walker" and it features tasteless lyrics ("hit the gas, Paul Walker") that poke fun at the actor's untimely death.
The extinct horse, known by the scientific name Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli, likely co-existed with the 4.4 million-year-old human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus.
The move to offer a site lease to SpaceX comes a day after the federal government rejected a complaint about the space agency's bidding process for the launch site filed by Blue Origin, led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.
