By playing a waitress in a video, Britney Spears tries to connect with a great rock tradition. Check, please.

Unlike all the other planets, Uranus is tilted by almost a right angle

With the aid of our last-minute holiday gift book guide, fill your loved ones' stockings with Gary Larson, exotic scents, mosque architecture, the moons of Jupiter and the jolliest Santa of them all -- North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il!

The distant ice giant planet, its rings and its moons are depicted in gorgeous detail

The NASA-supplied audio also reveals what a breeze on Mars sounds like

An intra-party task force on climate could bring Democratic voters together

Watch the rover cling to the underside of a frozen Alaskan lake. One day it may be deployed in the search for life

"Crazy K" is so crazy about "Star Wars" movies he's been in the ticket line for weeks.

Hollywood action films aside, is there genuine risk to broadcasting our existence beyond the stars?

Bergman meets Hitchcock on Freud's couch in a dazzling, pitch-perfect intellectual thriller from French director Anne Fontaine.

In this distinguished Welsh writer's mind, Florence is the quintessential center of art, history and civilization

Microbe in lake uses arsenic as a nutrient; not one of six major elements thought to be essential for life

The moon will look red-tinged as it rises Thursday for a once-a-year Strawberry Moon

Water, water, everywhere — as a vapor — on Jupiter's fourth-largest moon. But is there a (liquid) drop to drink?