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Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life.

Alice Eve knows aliens, or at least she does in her movies. The British actress has dealt with the topic of extra-terrestrial life quite a bit, as she's appeared in both "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Men In Black 3," which is fitting since she believes we're not alone .

The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

It is known NASA does not have everyone believing earth will perish due to global warming.

Black Hat A recipient of two of NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medals, Brian Muirhead has unique experience in solving the challenges of both robotic and human exploration of space.

Clouds are hard to spot in this natural-color image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, taken March 24, 2013.

EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission planned for launch in 2015.

I recently had the chance to speak with Aldrin, 83, as part of a promotion for his new book, Mission to Mars .

Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old.

Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct.

Kiera Wilmot is going to space camp. In late April, the 16-year-old central Florida honor student was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week.

After more than eight years of delays, a sex offender who worked as a nurse is going to prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old patient.

A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.

What might be the next vehicle to carry astronauts to space and back will be inspected by top NASA officials Wednesday at Dryden Flight Research Center north of Los Angeles.

Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research that dates back to the origins of U.S. space travel, a group of scientists in white coats is stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and, most important, tasting the end result of their cooking.

NASA has awarded a mechanical engineer a grant worth $125,000 to help him create a 3D printer for food.

The multi-axis milling machine works while NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot visits Marshall Building 4705, as master machinists show off what NASA says is one of the world's largest multi-axis milling machines in a key job for the space agency Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.