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Dear Dr. Universe: Why do carrots have sugar? They are so yummy! – George and Samuel, 6, Virginia

MIAMI — The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked "functionally extinct" from Florida’s reefs. That finding comes from a newly published scientific paper that reads more like an obituary for two of the most visible and important coral species on Florida’s reefs: ...

Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said Monday that NASA was reopening the contract for the Artemis III moon lander after delays with development of SpaceX’s Starship..

ROCKWOOD, Texas – During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like bland, oversize backyard sheds. Several large recreational vehicles are parked nearby.

The Orionid meteor shower is set to peak, when several streaks of meteors could be visible.

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s been more than 18 months since NASA narrowed to three the field of competitors vying to build the nation’s next moon rover. Ahead of an expected mid-November decision, the teams have completed a series of tests to prove to NASA they have the right stuff for the Artemis missions. But each company is also intent on showing off the goods, a task that put one prototype rover ...

YELLOW PINE, Idaho – Behind the gleaming, forearm-sized golden scissors and the crowd of dignitaries sat a pile of rocks.

NEWPORT - When Seattle Mariners breakout star Cal Raleigh steps to the plate Friday afternoon, he will be wielding an obviously tapered weapon.

Former NIH director Francis Collins came to Spokane Thursday for a discussion on science and faith.

In 1957, a 23-year-old Jane Goodall saved up enough money out of secretarial school and traveled from England to a friend’s farm in Kenya. While there, she met paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, who offered her a job at a nearby natural history museum. It did not take long for Leakey to realize that Goodall’s passion for animals, her elevated patience, high energy and bravery would make her a great fit for studying wild chimpanzees.

Researchers have uncovered how the body’s own immune system may be driving the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS - a breakthrough that could reshape treatment of the fatal disease.

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm.

Nexstar Media, the Dallas-based TV station owner at the center of the high-profile controversy over the preemption of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night ABC show, may finally be realizing the potential of NewsNation, its five-year-old cable news network. 

The US lowered tariffs on auto imports from the European Union to 15% retroactive to Aug. 1, cementing terms of the framework trade agreement the two sides struck almost two months ago.

Instagram has reached 3 billion monthly users, cementing the network as one of the most popular consumer apps of all time and leading parent Meta Platforms Inc. to put even more emphasis on the tools that keep driving growth: short-form video and private messaging.

Three new spacecraft successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, inaugurating missions to better understand the sun and its effects on Earth.

One of the major reasons why AI data centers are sucking up so much power is the need to cool processors that run very hot. But Microsoft Corp. is trying out a possible solution: sending fluid directly through tiny channels etched into the chips.

Lauren Edgar was in second grade the first time she realized her future might lie outside the earth’s atmosphere. While attending Discovery Elementary School in Sammamish, Edgar went to watch the Discovery Space Shuttle launch. 

SpaceX’s sunrise launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday was the 80th launch of the year on the Space Coast, which is on track to break the annual record and surpass 100 for the year. A Falcon 9 carrying 28 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites on the Starlink 10-27 mission lifted off from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:53 a.m. The first-stage booster made its 11th flight with a recovery ...