The shocking inattention apparent in the cockpit of a wayward Northwest Airlines flight has angered passengers and regulators. The pilots overshot Minneapolis by 100 miles, and if a flight attendant hadn't asked them for an explanation, they soon would have been accompanied by fighter jets. ...more

October 29, 2009

Not too long ago, Japanese scientists made an in-depth research about global warming. ...more

June 16, 2009

Here's a few of the dozens of commemorative resolutions sponsored or co-sponsored this session by Florida's two U.S. senators and the Tampa Bay area members of the U.S. House. ...more

December 26, 2008

Rising from the orchestra pit in a cloud of smoke, and surrounded by Stewart Middle Magnet School students in blue jumpsuits, Cpt. Winston Scott made quite an entrance to the Blake High School auditorium. ...more

October 8, 2008

A group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their concern that the United States is not doing enough to defend the planet against the dangers posed by near-Earth objects. ...more

July 5, 2008

TAMPA - Consider it the great cosmic ice breaker. That's how scientists describe tonight's planned touchdown of the Phoenix Mars Lander, the first robot to dig into ice on the Red Planet. If all goes well, the $386 million craft will plunge through the atmosphere and settle atop the northern arctic plain, where researchers hope to find treasure below the surface: frozen water. ...more

May 23, 2008

Neither wind nor rain nor hail stops the U.S. Postal Service, but they do frustrate the people trying to launch space shuttles. ...more

February 7, 2008

A weather front moving through Florida could put the brakes on Thursday's planned 2:47 p.m. liftoff of Atlantis, when storm clouds are expected to linger around Kennedy Space Center. ...more

February 6, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL - Norm Bobczynski drives a gray Honda minivan up to a dormant rocket launch pad at Cape Canaveral and scans his eyes across worn concrete roads and rusting steel towers. ...more

December 1, 2007

Imagine hearing this announcement from your pilot before your airplane takes off: 'I'd like to tell you how dangerous this flight is going to be, but I can't because I don't want to scare you.' ...more

October 25, 2007