Convening a rarely used committee for the first time in more than three decades, top Trump administration officials voted Tuesday to exempt oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from requirements that protect endangered species.

It’s a striking move that advocacy groups say could further imperil gulf wildlife like the Rice’s whale, one of the ...Read more

Every single person who has flown to the moon has been a man. All of them have been white. Each one has been an American.

That’s about to change.

The crew of Artemis II, gunning for a launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday evening, features what would be the first Black man, first woman and first person from a country other than the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Brett Joseph Cohen was manning the only meteorite stall at the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society‘s annual trade show Sunday morning. Chunks of asteroids and lunar rocks glinted on his table.

He’d affixed a hand-lettered sign to one display: “This meteorite fell 12 days ago and was recovered by me in Northern Ohio.”

And...Read more

Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than today, and the amount of lead in kids’ blood has plummeted.

What made that drop possible is arguably the most ...Read more

Fifty years ago, Steve Wozniak knew he built a great personal computer, but the young engineer couldn't convince his employer, Hewlett-Packard, to buy into the big idea.

"Five times they turned me down for the personal computer. I wanted Hewlett-Packard to do it. I loved my company, but now Steve Jobs and I had to go into business," Wozniak ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A judge has denied environmentalists’ claims that the federal government erred in approving a lithium-boron mine in Esmeralda County, clearing the way for the mine to proceed with its eventual construction.

The battle over the mine’s impacts has spanned years, largely concerned with an endemic wildflower called Tiehm’s ...Read more

The countdown clock for a Wednesday launch attempt of NASA’s Artemis II mission began ticking at 4:44 p.m. EDT Monday at Kennedy Space Center.

Minutes later, SpaceX knocked out its 21st launch of the year using a record-setting booster on the Space Coast with another Falcon 9 rocket on a Starlink mission.

Using a first-stage booster for a ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of spectators are expected to descend on the Space Coast this week for a chance to witness something that has not happened since last century.

Humans will be headed to the moon for the first time since the Apollo program in 1972.

The Artemis II mission, a lunar fly-by, could launch from Kennedy Space Center as early as ...Read more

NASA's Artemis II mission, the first to send humans around the moon in half a century, is slated to launch Wednesday. It will be piloted by one of Southern California's own.

Victor Glover — a former Ontario High School wrestler and Navy test pilot who often wears his excitement on his royal-blue jumpsuit sleeve — will be the first Black ...Read more

Since the pandemic, I’ve constantly looked for ways to improve my work-from-home space. I have added a standing desk, switched out a gaming chair for an office one and shuffled through several keyboards. That shift has also led to more items dotting my desk, like funny little speakers, a cup holder and an auxiliary screen. The latest ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The first campground in the state park system catering to the off-road vehicle crowd will open this summer in northern Minnesota.

Years in development, Pyrite Campground opens June 12 in Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park, the Department of Natural Resources announced March 26.

While Pyrite will be open to all ...Read more

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.

The U.S. was locked in a space race with the Soviet Union, and the Apollo 11 landing helped cement America’s lead in the competition to be the reigning geopolitical superpower in the depths of the Cold War....Read more

TAMPA, Fla. -- Smoke pours over the colony of bees, dousing the air in a sweet, earthy smell of burning wood.

Drake Elting holds the smoker while Stephanie Ramthun pulls out a wooden slat covered in buzzing honeybees.

The pair, dressed in thick white suits, look like astronauts exploring another planet.

In a way, they are.

They’re ...Read more

There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would you rather have abundant and affordable energy or a clean, healthy planet where wildlife can flourish?

It sounds like an either/or choice, but it doesn’t have to be.

Many corporate leaders, including those I’ve worked with, know that ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Instead of agreeing on a traditional, 20-year deal for the Colorado River, the states that share the water source are focused on a short-term plan as they stare down the basin’s worst snow season in two decades.

But that doesn’t mean officials are ready to agree any time soon, despite mounting federal pressure to do so.

“We...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury dealt a blow to social media giants Meta and YouTube this week when it found that the platforms were negligent for designing addictive features that harmed the mental health of a California woman.

Both companies plan to appeal, but the ruling has ignited uncertainty around the tech companies' future and ...Read more

One of the most compelling theories about the future of artificial intelligence comes, oddly enough, from a 161-year-old paper about the coal industry. In 1865, the English economist William Stanley Jevons observed that improvements to the coal-fired steam engine had not reduced Britain’s coal consumption. Instead, they had massively increased...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Before the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission travel farther from Earth than any human ever has, they first had to get to the launch site.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen arrived from Houston at 2:15 p.m. to Kennedy Space Center as ...Read more