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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 ...

Three years ago, Martian dust shrouded the solar panels on NASA’s InSight lander, preventing further operations and leading to its retirement. But the mission’s data continues to reveal information about the red planet – particularly how it is both like, and unlike, our own.

On a concrete pad in San Diego, firefighters dab flaming drops of fuel outside two nearly identical sheds. As the mulch around them burns, a row of fans starts to blow, simulating how a windstorm intensifies wildfires. Once the flames approach the huts, something remarkable happens: One structure is quickly consumed in a tower of flames, leaving little but ashes. The other hut emerges unscathed.

HANFORD – Ten years ago this weekend, a team of Eastern Washington astronomers changed the way scientists study the universe.

“On this street designed by idealists

SpaceX’s Starship successfully put satellites in space for the first time, a major milestone for the Elon Musk-led company after a year marked by explosive test flights and development setbacks.

SpaceX delayed a critical test flight of its massive Starship rocket roughly half an hour before liftoff on Sunday, saying it needed to fix a liquid oxygen leak and that it would aim for another launch on Monday night.

Created and run by Cornell University, Merlin allows users to identify birds instantly through photographs, a step-by-step guide or audio recordings of birdsong.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is headed for its 50th rendezvous with the International Space Station, bringing cargo and a new reboost capability after having launched from the Space Coast early Sunday.

It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force is set to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft — which looks like a miniature space shuttle — back for a long-duration mission to orbit during a late-night launch Thursday.

Dr. Universe: How do cell phones work? – Colleen, Michigan

Somewhere in a rodent burrow or rock crevasse on the eastern side of Washington, a large female snake is giving birth to a litter of fully formed babies. In a week or two, they’ll get rattles – but not the kind with teething rings.