An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, kicking off a four-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.

A newly discovered shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico may have originally gone down 200 years ago. The ship is full of glass bottles, ceramic plates and boxes of muskets.

Gearing up for the ?Release Preview? of the new operating system next month, Microsoft this week detailed its plans for Windows 8?s family safety settings. One of the features lets parents receive a weekly email report that summarizes a child?s activities on the computer.

To be sure, cyber crimes have been occurring for some time, but the presence of social media has made many crimes much easier to commit. Here are some of the ways criminals use Facebook.

Verizon Wireless is planning to force customers to give up their unlimited data plans when they move to its high-speed wireless service, a top executive for parent company Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday.

Pets can be frustrating. Sometimes they just stare and stare at you ? as if you're supposed to magically know exactly what they're thinking. Well, an amusing (and free) iPhone app helps defuse those awkward moments by suggesting what might be on your beloved pet's mind.

Every time a little boy in Russia tries to hug a little girl, she shoves him to the ground in a video that has already topped 1.2 million hits on YouTube. (TODAY)

Sometimes the queries you enter into Google have multiple meanings. Wouldn't it be nice if Google could simply guess what you really want results for? It now can.

We've long known more than a few Facebook users don't trust the social network to keep their personal information private. A new poll shows that many who don't trust Facebook stay anyway.

During the first week of May, the small crew left behind at an Antarctica research station bid farewell to the sun as it set for the last time for the season, plunging the frigid continent into the permanent midnight of winter.

When a camera manufacturer says their camera is rugged, it's not always possible to take them at their word. One crew decided to find out just how real Canon's claims of ruggeness were, and it makes for fun watching.

Even though the Internet, as a whole, is notorious for having a short attention span, a large group of strangers have been showering a man in hospice care with countless letters, drawings, stuffed animals, DVDs and other gifts for over a month.

Students' science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a U.S. commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.

A small, faint asteroid will be coming into view this week, and lucky skywatchers with the right tools could catch a glimpse of the space rock.