A 3 by Waiters boosted the lead back to nine, but Johnson hit another 3 and Zanna scored four straight points to move Pitt within 53-49 with 8:36 left. SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Ashton Gibbs, Cameron Wright and Lamar Patterson all scored 10 points for Pitt,

Matt Freed /Post-Gazette Pitt's Nasir Robinson can't come up with a rebound Wednesday against Rutgers in the first half at Petersen Events Center. In previous seasons, Pitt's upcoming stretch of Big East Conference games would have been used as a measuri

PITTSBURGH -- A female inmate has received $6,000 to settle her lawsuit claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a former nurse at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh. That man, John Johnson Jr. , 60, of Green Tree, in October pleaded guilty to th

One study shows that in our Milky Way, most stars have planets; Since there are a lot of stars in our galaxy, about 100 billion, that means a lot of planets. The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it is a crowded and crazy co

Astronomers have discovered three alien planets that they said could be the smallest yet, with one of them just the size of Mars. The planets, detected using available data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler mission, are 0.78

John Johnson is a researcher at NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena). Dr. Johnson says of this ultra-small solar system: “This is the tiniest solar system found so far. It's actually more similar to Jupiter an

Police raided a safe in a city-centre building – and found £500,000 of 'dirty money'. Bundles of banknotes had been crammed into the safe at St James Safe Deposit Company in Oxford Street, Manchester. They do not know how it was raised - but fingerprints

Discovery may boost likelihood of existence of habitable planets A team of astronomers led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has discovered the three smallest confirmed planets ever detected outside our solar system. The t

With breathtaking speed astronomers are rewriting our understanding of the universe in which we live. It was only 15 years ago the scientists spied the first planet around another star. On Wednesday, astronomers announced there are at least 100 billion p

Three new planets found outside our solar system are the smallest exoplanets yet discovered—each of them tinier than Earth, astronomers announced today. The tiny worlds are clustered around a red M-dwarf star called KOI-961 that is itself among the more

Scientists thought this type of two-sun system _ made famous as the home planet of t

Adding to its already long roster of firsts, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found the three smallest extrasolar planets ever detected — all of them smaller than Earth, and the most diminutive no larger than Mars. The newly discoverd trio forms a miniature

PITTSBURGH -- Ashton Gibbs understands the pressure that comes with being named the preseason Big East Player of the Year. The Pittsburgh senior guard welcomes the challenge, believing he can do for the Panthers what Kemba Walker did for Connecticut a ye

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ashton Gibbs understands the pressure that comes with being named the preseason Big East Player of the Year. The Pittsburgh senior guard welcomes the challenge, believing he can do for the Panthers what Kemba Walker did for Connecticut

AIDY BOOTHROYD dedicated Saturday’s long-overdue victory to the Cobblers supporters who made the journey to witness it. Town’s fans ventured to Morecambe in more expectation than they had for the previous 14 games, none of which had ended in a victory. I

If Pitt coach Jamie Dixon does not find a way to get his team to play better defense, the Panthers might go from first to worst in the Big East Conference in one year. But before you consider the possibility that Pitt will bring up the rear in the confer

Win number 11 came in a huge road contest for the Cincinnati Bearcats Sunday night. Sure the Pittsburgh Panthers are playing some of their worst ball of the Jamie Dixon era and Tray Woodall didn't play, but Cincinnati had to win that game. I'm not totall

PITTSBURGH -- Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin told anyone who would listen the Bearcats would go undefeated while senior forward and unquestioned team leader Yancy Gates served his six-game suspension for his role in an ugly brawl with crosstown rival Xavie

PITTSBURGH (AP) - So much for Pittsburgh's dominance at the Petersen Events Center. And in the Big East too. The reeling 22nd-ranked Panthers fell to surging Cincinnati 66-63 on Sunday night, their third straight defeat overall and third at home in the l