It's been a good couple of days for Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve. On Wednesday the Fed announced its $600 billion "quantitative easing" experiment, otherwise known as QE2, to goose the economy ...

The Queen Elizabeth 2, looking spiffy despite more than three decades in service, showed off some new cosmetic surgery during its most recent call in Los Angeles, outbound on a world cruise. Although ...

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A huge asteroid set to sail past Earth on Friday has its own moon, NASA scientists have just discovered. Researchers obtained a series of radar images of the approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 late ...

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has captured the most detailed radar images yet of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its newly discovered moon. A sequence of pictures released on Friday shows the ...