[ad_1] NASA’s announcement Saturday that it won’t use a troubled Boeing capsule to return two stranded astronauts to Earth is a yet another setback for the...
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA decided Saturday it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule, and they’ll have...
[ad_1] NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. The announcement at a press...
[ad_1] What’s undisputed is that, starting in the mid-1940s, powerful social forces transformed Los Angeles so that commuters had only two choices: drive or take a...
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area,...
[ad_1] BISMARCK, N.D. — On a remote tallgrass prairie in North Dakota, a secretive orchid pokes up from the ground. You’ll only find it if you...
[ad_1] A day after Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference...
[ad_1] GRINDAVIK, Iceland — A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new fissure on...
[ad_1] Amid a summer surge of Covid-19 infections, the US Food and Drug Administration just approved updated mRNA vaccines that more closely target the currently circulating...
[ad_1] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Polaris Dawn mission is set to make history with a series of firsts, from a commercial spacewalk to achieving the highest...
[ad_1] SHREWSBURY, Vt. (AP) — A Canada lynx, an endangered species in Vermont, has been confirmed in the state for the first time since 2018, and...
[ad_1] The waterspout blamed for the deadly sinking of a luxury superyacht carrying the British tech billionaire Mike Lynch in Italy has been called a freak...
[ad_1] (THE CONVERSATION) — When you think of a fearsome, sharp-toothed predator, a squid probably isn’t the first animal that comes to mind. But these complex...
[ad_1] A procession of books in recent years have explored the UFO phenomenon but few perhaps with the authority Luis Elizondo brings as a Defense Department...
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — Space fans were in for a treat on Tuesday morning as they watched a brand-new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket take...
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Monday’s supermoon is the first of four this year. During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual...
[ad_1] For every person who is killed by lightning, roughly another nine are struck and survive, often with life-changing injuries. And with climate change making stormy...
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — A tiny South American deer that will weigh only as much as a watermelon when fully grown is making its debut...
[ad_1] PETROPAVOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia — One of Russia’s most active volcanoes has erupted, spewing plumes of ash 5 kilometers (3 miles) into the sky over the far...
[ad_1] The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Vacuum decay, a process that could end the universe as we know it, may happen...