Atlantis astronauts will likely use a sewing kit normally reserved for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft?s tail, NASA managers said Tuesday.

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt ? more than a century ago.

If ever there was a massively multiplayer role-playing game to take the uninitiated by the hand and lead the way, it?s ?The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar.?

Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of the imperial capital, in what is being billed as the world?s biggest computer simulation of an ancient city.

Paleontologists have discovered a new small gliding reptile in 220 million-year-old sediments of a quarry on the Virginia-North Carolina border.

More than a million animals have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.