The Hughes fire ignited on Wednesday afternoon, growing to more than 8,000 acres in a few hours. The new wildfire grew quickly overnight and was dubbed an "immediate threat to life" by the California ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from California's central coast today (Jan. 24). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from ...

Tonight and throughout January, stargazers can see a planetary alignment in the night sky or what some are calling a planetary parade.

In June 2024 The Economist remembered Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, the mission’s lunar module pilot. Anders also took perhaps the most famous environmental image ever— Earthrise. Against the ...

To reconstruct the environmental conditions during the time of Homo erectus, the research team used advanced modeling techniques.

"Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary explains President Donald Trump's "tariff signal" to world economic leaders on "The Story." ...

The vast majority of successful launches and landings of SpaceX rockets have been of the Falcon 9, though that has taken several forms as SpaceX iterated upon the original design.

From west to east, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will make an arc across Wyoming’s night sky in a parade of planets Friday and ...

Earth, captured once a day by the EUMETSAT meteorological satellite, have been time-lapsed. (video looped) Credit: Simon Proud / NCEO / EUMETSAT ...

SpaceX is preparing to beta test direct-to-cell Starlink satellites, which will connect anyone with a phone to cellular service anywhere in the world.

A solar explosion called a coronal mass ejection is poised to graze Earth on Friday or Saturday (Jan. 24 or Jan. 25), potentially triggering colorful auroras over the northern U.S.