Ken Mattingly, astronaut who helped Apollo 13 crew return safely home, dies at age...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo...
Investigators are being sent to US research base on Antarctica to look into sexual...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica's McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about...
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant starts 3rd release of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea
TOKYO (AP) — The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea Thursday...
Ornithological society to rename dozens of birds — and stop naming them after people
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people, the American Ornithological Society announced Wednesday.Next year, the organization will begin to rename...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter.The spacecraft on...
Ozone hole is about average size, despite undersea volcano eruption that was expected to...
With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this...
3 astronauts return to Earth after 6-month stay on China’s space station
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Tuesday morning after six months aboard China’s orbiting space station.Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu...
Climate scientist Saleemul Huq, who emphasized helping poor nations adapt to warming, dies at...
Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts...
Two hours of terror and now years of devastation for Acapulco’s poor in Hurricane...
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Estela Sandoval Díaz was huddled in her tiny concrete bathroom, sure these were the final moments of her life, when...
In early 2029, Earth will likely lock into breaching key warming threshold, scientists calculate
In a little more than five years – sometime in early 2029 – the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally...
