It wasn’t until 1983 that the first African American, Guion Bluford, reached space
February 09, 2024
An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a “cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future
February 09, 2024
A new United Nations report says nearly half of the world's migratory species are in decline
February 12, 2024
Turkey’s first astronaut has returned home to a hero’s welcome as a symbol of the country’s advances in technology and aerospace
February 12, 2024
Shipwreck hunters have discovered a merchant ship that sank in Lake Superior in 1940, taking its captain with it during a storm off Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
February 12, 2024
Japan’s space agency has postponed the second test flight of its new flagship rocket H3 series planned for this week because of bad weather forecast at the launch site
February 13, 2024
With Arctic sea ice shrinking from climate change, many polar bears have to shift their diets to land during parts of the summer
February 13, 2024
A stingray that has lived for years in a North Carolina aquarium without a male companion is pregnant
February 13, 2024
Each February, more than 2,000 players descend on Meredith, New Hampshire, for the three-day Pond Hockey Classic
February 14, 2024
Japan’s space agency says its new flagship H3 rocket will have a second test flight on Saturday, two days after an originally planned liftoff was postponed due to a bad weather forecast at the launch site in southwestern Japan
February 14, 2024
A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon
February 14, 2024
A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain may contribute to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks
February 14, 2024
Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades
February 15, 2024
Airbus says it plans to deliver more aircraft to customers in 2024 even as supply chain headaches continue to afflict the European airplane maker
February 15, 2024
Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas
February 16, 2024
NASA finally has counted up all the asteroid samples returned by a spacecraft last fall
February 16, 2024
Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years
February 16, 2024
Many companies, philanthropic organizations and national and international entities tout the promise of alternative crops to fight climate change
February 17, 2024
Parts of the United States are experiencing a rare natural phenomenon with the simultaneous emergence of two enormous adjacent broods of periodical cicadas.
May 30, 2024
Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe
February 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow has no intention to deploy nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the country only has developed space capabilities similar to what the U.S. has
February 20, 2024
United Airlines says a flight heading from San Francisco to Boston had to be diverted after the plane suffered damage to one of its wings
February 20, 2024
Whales sing loud enough that the sound travels through the ocean
February 21, 2024
An old Earth-observing satellite has fallen out of orbit and harmlessly burned up
February 21, 2024
A study of older adults in China offers a closer look at the dominolike sequence of brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's
February 21, 2024
Sri Lankans vote in a presidential election that will decide how it recovers from economic crisis
A school bus is being used to give students experience in the food industry
Trump presses to change Nebraska election law, in fight for a sole electoral vote
Court rules nearly 98,000 Arizonans whose citizenship hadn't been confirmed can vote the full ballot
Brazil's government improves fiscal outlook for the year
Diving in the Titan ‘was never supposed to be safe,’ mission specialist says of the experimental submersible
Wojnarowski one of the first significant sports 'insiders' to step away from the spotlight
Lewd posts by Trump-backed candidate for NC governor removed from porn forum
A lost cat's mysterious 2-month, 900-mile journey home to California