Sci/Tech

The team behind America’s return to the moon will be all business on April Fools’.

For decades, science fiction writers from Andy Weir to Ray Bradbury have vividly imagined what it would be like if humans were to step foot on the surface of Mars.

A cosmic reunion more than 50 years in the making is just around the corner.

E-cigarettes are likely to cause cancer, including in the lungs and mouth, according to a sweeping review of scientific evidence that challenges their positioning as a safer alternative to smoking. Published Monday in the journal Carcinogenesis, the review concludes that nicotine-based vapes are “likely to be carcinogenic to humans,” even though long-term population studies are still lacking. ...

If you’ve been watching the goings-on at your backyard feeder, you may have noticed: Birds become bullies in spring.

The United States has spent nearly a year pursuing deep sea mining without cooperation from the rest of the world. Now, Japan has said it will help out.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Before the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission travel farther from Earth than any human ever has, they first had to get to the launch site. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrived from Houston at 2:15 p.m. to Kennedy Space Center as they target a launch as early as Wednesday evening. ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA’s newest class of astronaut candidates just found out what people will call them. The tradition of the previous astronaut class — the Flies — bestowing the name the following class has continued, according to a Thursday press release from NASA. The 10 candidates of NASA’s 24th astronaut class, chosen in 2025 and not expected to graduate until 2027, are now know as the ...

A kaboom, a fireball and white streaks in the skies over Pennsylvania and Ohio - seen as far as Virginia and ​Canada - were probably the signs of a meteorite landing near Cleveland on Tuesday morning, according to the National ⁠Weather Service and scientists.

Government and industry are looking to nuclear energy to power arsenals, data centers, and medical research.

Bull sharks, it turns out, have friends.

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years away from Earth.

NASA moved quickly to tap United Launch Alliance to help fill in the blank space the agency created when it decided to alter its Artemis program’s future launches. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman had announced Feb. 27 that instead of developing a larger version of the Space Launch System rocket, which would been called the Block 1B for the fourth and fifth flights of the agency’s moon ...

If you think life always feels just a little bit easier in the spring and summer, you’re onto something.

A revamped version of a congressional NASA authorization act moving through the U.S. Senate would add two more years of life to the International Space Station among a slew of new directives for the nation’s space agency.

OLYMPIA – While politics may leave voters with a chip on their shoulder, state legislators want to ensure employees are not forced to get one in their shoulder – or elsewhere.

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles burning off the rocket on launch. While the Vulcan’s main first stage was able to course correct and get its Space Force payload to space on the Feb. 12 launch, one of the solid rocket boosters provided ...

GERETSRIED, Germany – In the foothills of the Alps in southern Germany, a clearing in the evergreen forest presents a strange tableau. The derricks of two drilling rigs jut toward the gray winter sky. Scattered around them are stainless steel tanks, stacks of pipe and toothy attachments for boring into the ground below.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the agency’s Artemis mission plans on Friday, adding an extra mission next year to help the program better prepare for a moon landing in 2028.