VIPER was originally supposed to land on the moon in late 2023 aboard Griffin, a lander built by Pittsburgh-based company ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...

On September 3rd, a lightning event on the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest caused a number of fires in the vicinity of ...

Like pipes, statues and nails, the moon can rust. Such rusting has occurred despite a seeming lack of necessary components — ...

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Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now almost entirely a desert, having lost more than 90 percent of ...

The success of American companies and pension funds depends on international markets, giving the world leverage to keep the US on board for the energy transition.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled that the state Board of Land and Natural Resources violated the state constitution when it denied a contested case hearing of East Maui ...

Enjoy our annual celebration of outstanding bird visuals—now featuring new prizes and winners from across the Western ...