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Smoldering through the underground remains of a long-forgotten building demolished half a century ago, the Gray fire is still going strongly nearly a year later in a landfill near Eastern State Hospital.

In the coming days, an all-time classic show that has dazzled onlookers for generations may come to Spokane. Vibrant and awesome, the northern lights may be seen in the Lilac City and as far south as Alabama.

The damage to the Orion capsule from the Artemis I mission is already top of mind for NASA as it works to make the Artemis II mission safe for humans. But a new agency report revealed the extent of the problem, including scores of cracks in Orion’s critical heat shield. The report from NASA’s Office of Inspector General outlined six issues that need NASA’s attention, with the heat shield ...

Since they hit it off on a blind date in 1997, Nikki Otero Lockwood and Bill Lockwood were romantically compatible.

The stage is set for some space history to be made Monday night as two veteran NASA astronauts aim to launch in a spacecraft that has never flown with humans before.

The Cochran Basin is the last stop before urban pollutants like vehicle fluids and landscaping chemicals enter the Spokane River from about 5,000 acres on the north side of town.

A sunlight-propelled satellite floating though space on huge metallic sails sounds like an idea straight from science fiction. But scientists at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia have spent five years making the technology a reality and plan to launch a test mission as soon as April 23.  

NASA completed analysis of an object that hit a Florida home in March and determined it was the remains of debris released from the International Space Station two years earlier.

WASHINGTON – Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect and use vast swaths of Americans' personal data, while Congress has repeatedly failed to regulate the practice. Now, two Washington state lawmakers have a bipartisan plan to break that impasse and set a national standard for data privacy.

Here are four different initiatives that have successfully restored or cleaned up ecosystems on land and under the sea.

There’s one stoplight in Kemp, Texas. About 1,200 people live in this city, roughly 45 miles southeast of Dallas. Asked what they do for fun, high school students shrug and mention the Dairy Queen.

The White House has directed NASA to establish a time standard for the moon, as the United States races to return to the moon, at a time when several countries including China and Russia, and private companies, have also set their sights on space.

Where in the unholy heck did all these bees come from?

Climate change is messing with time itself. The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

The sentencing Thursday of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison was the bookend of a legal case in New York. But the case also had implications for Eastern Washington: it helped kill a community bank.

Microscopic shards of glass that rained down from an ancient supervolcano eruption reveal how early modern humans adapted to dramatic climate change, according to a new study of a prehistoric site in northwestern Ethiopia.

The annual daylight saving ritual has passed and it serves yet again to remind us how precious our sleep truly is. Or at least most of us will admit to how hard it hits to lose an hour of regularly scheduled snooze time.