As NASA’s prized telescopes falter, astronomers fear losing their eyes in space
Astronomers will lose some of their key eyes in the skies before NASA can launch new telescopes. It will make some research impossible.
Nobel Prize in physics awarded for ‘tools made of light’; first woman in 55 years honored
The 2018 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their pioneering work to turn lasers into...
Wildfires continue to char California, but one fire is in a destructive league of its own
Two small blazes burning through Northern California have grown at breathtaking speed to form a massive inferno, quickly becoming the largest active wildfire in the...
Scientists finally find the 240-million-year-old ‘mother of all lizards’
A tiny fossil found in Italy is the "mother of all lizards," the oldest known ancestor of the largest order of living land vertebrates on...
NASA’s only moon rover just got canceled
The cancellation troubles many lunar scientists, who said the mission is vital to human exploration and to scientific understanding of the moon.
Las Vegas fund begins payouts to victims; one very ill survivor isn’t among them
Rosemarie Melanson is one of the last survivors of the Las Vegas massacre who is still hospitalized. But when the Las Vegas Victims' Fund began...
Itsy bitsy spiders of an entirely new kind discovered in 100-million-year-old amber
The tiny chimerarachne, or "chimera spider," is not a member of the immediate family of modern spiders. But it is one of their closest cousins,...