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The American robin has long signaled the arrival of spring, right up there with crocuses poking through dirt and frogs ribbiting at night.

After a successful test from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station last December, the Army on Thursday officially named its long-range hypersonic weapon “Dark Eagle.” The system designed to “disintegrate adversary capabilities” was at it again Friday morning.

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for research and to collect a dinosaur bone belonging to Alamosaurus, according to an April 8 news release from the university. The geology students were accompanied by Jesse Kelsch, an assistant ...

The Lyrid meteor shower - the second meteor shower on the calendar this year - runs through April 26, peaking on the night of April 21 to 22.

The colossal squid, the world's largest squid species, was caught on video for the first time swimming in its natural habitat, according to a California ocean research organization.

You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The vast majority burns up as it hurtles through the sky, creating shooting stars.

A Blue Origin rocket sent pop star Katy Perry and company founder Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez on a trip to the edge of space and back, the first time an all-female crew went to space in more than 60 years.

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Wouldn’t it be great if the visitor sporting a finely fitted tuxedo in your living room was James Bond? No such luck – it’s an insect dressed in nature’s formalwear.

NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan.

Often called the pink moon, April’s full moon will rise Saturday. The fourth full moon of the year, and the first of astronomical spring, it also happens to be a micromoon - the opposite of a supermoon. It will reach its peak at 8:22 p.m. Eastern time.

A Spokane-based nonprofit that works to protect the Spokane River has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Purina Mills, LLC, alleging that the company has failed to comply with requirements that they monitor discharges into the nearby waterway.

The four crew members of the private Fram2 mission returned to Earth on Friday after spending more than 3 1/2 days circling the planet on the first human spaceflight on a polar orbit. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the California coast at 9:19 a.m. Pacific time. The mission launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Chinese-born ...

REDMOND, Wash. – Brad Smith is an unusual futurist.

A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up to SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation.

Amazon’s new AI-enabled assistant Alexa+ is launching Monday but not all of the features the company showcased at a splashy event last month are ready, and not every Alexa owner will get access to them right away.

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend.