NASA wants to fly you to the moon, but maybe not to personally play among the stars. While flying every person ever interested in space exploration could be problematic in many ways, the space agency is allowing members of the public to submit their names to be included on a microchip to be launched aboard an Orion spacecraft Dec. 4.

It was supposed to be the couple’s happiest day: Kelly Ecker, a nurse, and Dr. George Scott Samson married Saturday afternoon in Terre Haute, Indiana. By their wedding night, both were dead. Samson, an anesthesiologist at Union Hospital is Terre Haute, shot his bride and then himself in their home just hours after they exchanged vows, authorities said.

The proposed Ontario Pension Plan will hurt jobs and economic competitiveness, say local businesses. But Ontario’s associate minister of finance says the plan is an investment that will help people achieve a secure retirement future and has the support of most Ontarians.

U.S. broadcasters are so concerned by the possibility Canada will switch to a pick-and-pay system for cable TV channels that several of them have threatened to pull themselves off Canadian airwaves altogether.

Federal science departments received an average grade of C- for how well — or poorly, in most cases — their media policies give researchers the freedom to communicate their research, according to a new analysis released Wednesday.

A landscaper has died and another is critically ill after the men were attacked by thousands of swarming bees in southern Arizona.

A painting of a “pig-deer” in a cave in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi could be the oldest known figurative work of art in the world, according to scientific dating methods. The discovery questions established notions of Europe as the birthplace of prehistoric art and suggests that cultural development occurred simultaneously across various parts of the world, reports Reuters.

Google Inc has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp, arguing that the high court must act to protect innovation in high tech. Google’s request, filed on Monday, seeks to overturn an appeals court ruling that found Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language, which Google used to design its Android smartphone …

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has just reached a new record high this year. The ice covers more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists first began a long-term satellite record to map sea ice extent in the late 1970s.

Health authorities in Spain have put to death the dog of a nurse infected with the Ebola virus in Madrid, sparking protests from animal rights groups. Activists scuffled with police outside her home as the dog was taken away.

After a highly publicized case that drew national attention, a Battle Creek native learned her sentence Wednesday after she pleaded guilty to attempting to kill both herself and her daughter. After a sentencing hearing that went on over the course of three days, Kelli Stapleton was sentenced Wednesday to between 10 and 22 years in prison.