Rescue crews are searching an area of the Pacific near San Diego for nine survivors after the crash of a Coast Guard transport plane and a Marine Corps helicopter off San Clemente Island last night.

It wasn't a "Deep Impact," or "Armageddon," but asteroid 2009 DD45 came pretty darn close to hitting Earth on Monday.

While some states have implemented hands-free cell phone laws for drivers, there hasn't been such attention paid in terms of text messaging or emailing, despite studies that have found as many as 30% of drivers text while behind the wheel.

A 14 year old boy from the Czech Republic, has died after a downhill collision with a Swedish man on a ski slope in Austria.

Using NASA's Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have determined, for the first time, the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system.