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Houston museum unveils $85 million dinosaur hall

Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal: all fossilized evidence that this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died in childbirth. Jurassic Mom's almost certainly painful death is perfectly preserved in a rare fossil skeleton, one of the many ...

• Updated: 8:09 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Private supply ship rockets toward space station

A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight. The SpaceX company made history as its Falcon 9 rocket rose from its seaside launch pad and pierced the pre-dawn sky, aiming for a rendezvous in ...

• Updated: 7:03 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured

Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod. The first time he tried it two years ago, he ran a third of a mile on grass. Within three weeks of switching over, he was clocking six miles ...

• Updated: 9:29 a.m. Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Webcasts push solar eclipse to the masses

It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque. Did it matter? Some say no. The game of chasing celestial spectacles like Sunday's eclipse has changed ...

• Updated: 6:39 p.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

Sea Launch vessels depart on Intelsat mission

Sea Launch AG says its oceangoing rocket pad and command ship have departed their Long Beach, Calif., home port for the equator to launch a communications satellite for Intelsat. The Switzerland-based company said in a statement Monday that liftoff of a Zenit-3SL rocket carrying Intelsat-19 is planned for 10:22 p.m. ...

• Updated: 2:03 p.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

SpaceX will try 1st private cargo run again Tues.

Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply flight. Forecasters put the odds of good weather at 80 percent for the test flight. Launch time was 3:44 a.m. ...

• Updated: 12:40 p.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

Disputed dinosaur fossil auctioned for $1M in NYC

A dinosaur dispute is brewing between the Mongolian government and an American auction house, which sold a fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative despite a court order not to. The 8-foot-tall, 24-foot-long skeleton of a Tyannosaurus bataar — or tarbosaurus, a name that means "alarming lizard" — went for ...

• Updated: 10:19 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire" eclipse. Millions of people across a narrow strip of eastern Asia and the Western U.S. turned their ...

• Updated: 6:16 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

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Images from the weekend

Browse some of the most interesting photos shot from around the world over the weekend.

• Updated: 5:29 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012

Millions look skyward as eclipse crosses Asia, US

Skywatchers from Mount Fuji to the Grand Canyon enjoyed a treat: the moon nearly blotting out the sun to create a dramatic "ring of fire" over a narrow strip of eastern Asia and the western United States. The annular eclipse, in which the moon passes in front of the sun ...

• Updated: 2:27 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012