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.

A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.

A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.

A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.

Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday.

Quarantines were lifted on two Central California dairies associated with a case of mad cow disease after investigators found no link between the illness and food the diseased bovine might have consumed, federal officials said Friday.

For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.

In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems.

A rocket has lifted off in Japan in the country's first commercial launch of a foreign satellite - one from South Korea designed to monitor the environment.

Several companies are working on rockets and spacecraft that could ferry supplies and astronauts to the International Space Station, now that the shuttle program is over.

NASA hasn't seen this much prelaunch jitters since the space shuttle program ended last summer.

The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children?

And the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West.

Hazel the schnauzer and Wrigley the black lab mix mean everything to Harriet Buscombe. The dogs protect her on her pre-dawn runs around her Champaign, Ill., neighborhood, but mostly they make her feel great.

Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.

Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.

A Russian-made Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, putting the crew in place for the imminent arrival of the first ever privately owned cargo ship to the orbiting lab.

In a story May 16 about the space shuttle Endeavour, The Associated Press reported erroneously the name of the museum that will house the shuttle. It's the California Science Center, not California Science Museum.

A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection has been looking at her ravaged hands and asking about the damage, all without tears, her father said Wednesday.

Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs.

Coffee seems to be good for you. Or at least it's not bad, say researchers who led the largest-ever study of coffee and health.

An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems, a rare but surprising risk found in a 14-year study.

One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.

Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine.

For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.

Hundreds of thousands of red baby crabs are invading the Cayman Islands in a seasonal migration that residents say is unusually heavy this year.

The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.

Your spouse has just received a crushing diagnosis. Your lives together will never be the same.

Cellphones are a staple commodity of childhood. According to a Mediamark survey, 20 percent of all children between 6 and 11 years of age have their own cellphones. That’s an increase of nearly 81 percent since 2005.

Thanksgiving is a time for families to gather and celebrate their love and connections. But in some households, this concept is as foreign as a low-carb pumpkin pie.

The woman sat dejected in my office. “Our family is in total chaos,” she began. “Our grown daughter is accusing us of parental neglect and abuse.

Black sheep are those family members who have been shunted to the periphery of the clan. For instance, an aunt has been shunned by her siblings, hasn’t heard from her family in years and is mentioned only in disparaging whispers.

We all want our daughters, nieces and granddaughters to develop a healthy self-esteem. We’re concerned about their having the emotional skills needed to negotiate life’s complex demands.

‘He just doesn’t take care of himself,” the woman complained in my office. She was frustrated because her husband refused to treat his high blood pressure or eat the healthy meals she prepared for their dinner.

Should married men and women have friends of the opposite gender? I don’t think it’s smart.

For the most part, my husband and I get along pretty well. We seldom argue. Our relationship tends to be the same day after day.

I cherish my role as Auntie Linda. I love palling around with my niece and five nephews, listening to them perform on their instruments and catching up on their schooling, new babies and jobs.

The family is expanding. Our son is getting married this month and we’re delighted to welcome his bride, Gabrielle, into the fold.

Fifty percent of all first marriages end in divorce. But for subsequent marriages the outlook is even bleaker. More than two-thirds of second marriages and three-quarters of third marriages fail to survive.

A reader recently wrote to me. “I want to address emotional issues with my husband,” she said. “But he always gets defensive when I bring up certain topics. He’ll say, ‘You do the same thing,’ or ‘Excuse me for not being perfect.’ I feel so frustrated by his behavior. Nothing ever gets resolved.”