AP – Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly said Thursday he’s still awaiting doctors’ blessing to bring his wounded congress woman wife, Gabrielle Giffords, to his launch in just under three weeks.

AP – Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the out of action BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years ancient.

AP – Reckon the moon has many craters? New photos from the initially spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.

AP – The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars vagrant Spirit is vanishing after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth.

LiveScience.com – A long-lost Chinese cousin of T. rex has been exposed, one comparable in size to the legendary predator and one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found.