ASTRONOMERS have recorded a previously unknown galactic phenomenon – the first distant star with a comet-like tail powerful enough to form planets.

August 22, 2007 ‘Space tourism’ is the latest buzz phrase to hit the high-end travel industry with cosmos tourists already visiting the international space station. Now news that a luxury hotel stay in space is as little as five short years away.

Hispanic Americans are the fastest-growing and youngest US mobile segment, with the highest average revenue per user of any demographic group, according to Telephia’s "Q2 2007 Mobile Hispanic Report," cited in RCR News.

A German has handed in a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to Egypt’s embassy in Berlin, with a note saying his stepfather had suffered a "curse of the Pharaohs" for stealing it, Egypt said Wednesday.

The lottery ticket Hugo Esparragoza wrapped in a box and gave to his wife turned out to be worth $1 million, lottery officials said.

The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

A University of Colorado at Boulder team excavating an ancient Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has discovered an ancient field of manioc, the first evidence for cultivation of the calorie-rich tuber in the New World.

Apparently, this is what passes for a publicity stunt in the Ukraine. It’s a globe made out of Samsung cellphones, both old and new, being held up by a giant hand and surrounded by… mimes?

The man with the largest hand in the world will be looking forward to a normal life after undergoing radical plastic surgery at Shanghai No. 9 People’s Hospital. Liu Hua, a 24-year-old Jiangsu Province native, was born with a left thumb, index and middle finger much larger than normal.

A new service called Google Sky lets people enter their postcode to see how the night sky would look when seen from outside their own home.