NASA’s plans to return to the moon continue to highlight goals of landing the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface even amid the agency’s recent shutdown of diversity, equity and inclusion programs known as DEI under executive orders from President Trump.
Each year around Halloween, the northern shrike lands in our region to spend the winter. A songbird slightly smaller than a robin and covered in silvery-gray plumage, it sports a black tail and wings and a dainty eye mask. Perched atop trees and bushes, the bird is a charming sight against winter’s muted skies.
While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human eye as somewhat of line across the visible horizon. Saturday is one of those times.
SpaceX will be required to perform an investigation of why its uncrewed Starship rocket broke apart Thursday night after its ascent, an incident that sent chunks of debris into the Atlantic Ocean, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday.
Blue Origin managed something no commercial rocket company has ever done successfully by reaching orbit on the first try with its New Glenn rocket during an overnight launch early Thursday.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday awarded a $48 million grant to establish an aerospace manufacturing hub in Airway Heights that promises to make the Inland Northwest a national center for composite materials used in next-generation aircraft.
SpaceX knocked out another launch on Monday sending up the fifth Space Coast mission of the year. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 satellites took off through overcast skies at 11:47 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
Owls, with their earth-toned feathers, are masters of camouflage. But not the barn owl. Adorned with striking white plumage and an odd heart-shaped face, you might think the owl’s conspicuous appearance would make them easily visible to humans and spur prey to flee – or at least give them a good laugh.
After more than a decade of development, hype and pent-up demand, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace venture Blue Origin will at long last attempt to put a rocket into orbit.
If a truly snowy winter ever arrives to our region, you might see footprints resembling those left by some tiny, whimsical rabbit. In reality, they likely belong to the western deer mouse. As the animal hops across the snow, its larger hind paws land in front of the two smaller front paws. Following at the rear is a track left by its long, thin tail.
A volcano in Hawaii fired fountains of lava some 260 feet into the air in a dramatic eruption on the Big Island, filling its crater with the glowing molten rock.
The International Space Station had to fire thrusters from a docked spacecraft last month to avoid a piece of debris that has been circling the globe for the nearly 18 years since the Chinese government blasted apart one of its own satellites in a weapons test.
The two Boeing Starliner astronauts kept unexpectedly on the International Space Station since June have had their stay extended yet again because the next crew will arrive later than originally anticipated, NASA said this week.
Government officials in New Zealand are investigating how an aggressive species known as “the thumb splitter” ended up in the country’s northern coastal waters. Researchers out trapping Asian paddle crabs — an invasive species — in Tauranga Harbor were “shocked” to find they’d caught a Japanese mantis shrimp, according to a Dec. 11 Facebook Post from the Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council. ...
Federal officials on Friday declared portions of the Upper Columbia River a Superfund site after decades of studying, debating and litigating over the pollution that primarily washed downriver from Canada.
U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange-and-black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act.
PASADENA, Calif. – John Michael Morookian’s daily commute is 31 miles one-way, a stop-and-go journey through heinous Southern California traffic. It can easily take an hour. When he finally gets to his computer terminal in Building 230 of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he does more driving. The pace is slower yet. In fact the vehicle he drives never goes faster than about 0.1 mph.
