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The northern desert night snake may look deadly, but rest assured, it is just pretending. Aptly named for how they emerge from crevasses and beneath rocks at night to hunt for food, these reptiles not only resemble rattlesnakes, they also mimic them.

The four crew of Polaris Dawn can breathe easy again after having vented the entire atmosphere of their SpaceX Crew Dragon so its commander and billionaire Jared Isaacman along with crewmate and SpaceX employee Sarah Gillis could venture outside the spacecraft and perform the first commercial spacewalk on Thursday.

Aging infrastructure, short-term thinking, and ambitions that far outstrip its funding are just a few of the problems threatening the future of America's vaunted civil space agency, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

In the construction world, there are excavators, bulldozers and backhoes. In the animal world, there are badgers.

Local pest control businesses say that they have seen a significant increase in yellow jacket related calls this year.

Washington State University’s cryogenic hydrogen research center was selected to receive $4.8 million from the federal government to advance hydrogen related technologies and build a fueling station.

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Emerald green with slashes of blue, the green darner dragonfly is among the biggest and fastest of the dragonfly species in North America. You’ve probably seen them darting around bodies of water in the Inland Northwest. Now that it’s September, many of these insects will soon depart on an epic migration loop that researchers uncovered only several years ago.

A Butch- and Suni-less Boeing Starliner has been given a date to return to Earth by NASA.

In 1980, American astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “We are made of star stuff.”

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Norman G. Lewis is a professor at Washington State University who will examine nitrogen fixation and lignin levels in alfalfa in February 2025. Except there's one little twist, the experiment is occurring aboard the International Space Station.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Billionaire Jared Isaacman hasn’t been to space 1,066 days. He has to wait at least seven more for his return, but this time he hopes to perform the first commercial tethered spacewalk in history. The man who spearheaded the first all-commercial crew on the Inspiraiton4 mission in September 2021 is back with three new crewmates on the private mission Polaris Dawn, a ...

At least 12 invasive zebra mussels were found in aquatic moss balls in a Renton Petco on Aug. 5.

NASA officials said Wednesday that they are holding off the decision of whether to send two astronauts who flew up to the International Space Station on on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner home with the spacecraft or to wait for a ride home with SpaceX next year.

Now living at the Minnesota Zoo, Marcie the pronghorn antelope’s story began with a human Marcie across the country at Washington State University.

Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures – up 30 to 40 degrees above normal – because of multiple intense heat domes.

Sunday night was the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. But it was a surprisingly strong display of the northern lights that stole the show.

It waits with Zen-like stillness on top of a daisy. Along comes an aphid, leafhopper or bumblebee – and BAM! The tiny yet formidable killer stabs its victim with lightning-fast speed.