As Blue Origin prepares for the next launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral, the company appears to have experienced unexpected damage at its rocket manufacturing facility in Merritt Island, Florida.

Photos posted to social media show a damaged roof to what is know as the 2CAT facility, a vertical building used for tank cleaning and...Read more

San Jose wants to shape how local governments use artificial intelligence, and it’s restructuring its AI coalition into an independent nonprofit to do it.

The city is converting GovAI — a coalition founded by San Jose in 2023 — into a nonprofit, using a $150,000 grant from the Packard Foundation to fund the transition. The conversion ...Read more

Four days after astronauts flew around the moon for the first time in a half-century, ground crews across Southern California are making final preparations for their high-energy reentry and splashdown off the coast of San Diego, expected around 5 p.m. Pacific time Friday.

Southern Californians likely won't be able to see reentry or splashdown ...Read more

As Wall Street frets about the tech industry's eye-popping artificial intelligence spending spree, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy isn't blinking.

In a letter to shareholders Thursday, the Seattle-based tech giant's chief defended the $200 billion Amazon plans to spend on AI infrastructure this year, saying the company is not going to be conservative in ...Read more

Records were set. History was made. Now all that’s left is to get the four Artemis II astronauts home safe.

NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are in the final run of a 600,000-mile trip that began on April 1 when they launched from Kennedy Space Center on the first...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea, desert winds regularly kick up dust and send it drifting through nearby neighborhoods. New research indicates that living there may affect kids' lungs.

Scientists from the University of Southern California tested the lung capacity of 369 children between the ages of 10 and 12 for ...Read more

There is a spider making a home in the U.S, that’s the size of your palm and soars through the air riding the wind.

Although the Joro spider, an invasive species that has been spotted across the United States, isn’t dangerous, its size and the web it creates can seem like props from a horror movie.

“They’re not medically significant,�...Read more

When the Orion spacecraft returned from its first lunar trip on the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022, it suffered major damage to the spacecraft’s heat shield coating. That raised the crew safety alarm for Artemis II and ultimately was among the reasons it was delayed until 2026.

Decisions about the heat shield made since then, though, will...Read more

North America’s bee populations are in trouble, but don’t blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees – those raised to help pollinate crops and produce honey – is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn’t support the claim.

What is true is that populations of many ...Read more

The crescent Earth — our oasis holding everything we cherish, now just a speck in the infinite blackness — seemed to kiss the jagged lunar surface. The moon’s thousands of scars projected themselves across the Earth as it slowly slipped out of sight.

“I’m actually getting chills right now just thinking about it,” said Artemis II ...Read more

Tech behemoths, including Oracle and Meta Platforms, are laying off hundreds of California workers as they invest heavily in artificial intelligence.

Some of the top companies in tech that already had announced big plans to lay off thousands have revealed more details about where they are cutting in recent government filings.

Software giant ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — As data center projects have popped up across the St. Louis region, driven by the growth of industrial-scale computing for artificial intelligence, one of the primary concerns raised by residents is about water — as in, will data centers consume vast amounts of the local water supply?

Data centers — essentially huge warehouses...Read more

For decades, there’s been a quasi-clandestine accord about expanding oil drilling in the Gulf. Nobody wanted to go there — well, except the oil and gas companies aching to root around for black gold, and their most loyal minions in high places.

The idea of wherever-you-want drilling never made sense, for an array of reasons. Money was a key...Read more

LAS VEGAS — U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum reiterated Tuesday that the federal government favors a negotiated deal between the seven states that share Colorado River water over the resource’s allocation rather than a protracted legal battle.

During a Las Vegas Valley visit, Burgum said the federal government will continue pushing for ...Read more

Evan Malone brought his Cornell University engineering Ph.D., masters in robotics, and University of Pennsylvania physics degree back to Philadelphia in 2008 to start the first iteration of NextFab, a pioneer in the “makerspace” movement that sought to democratize new digital tools for a vision of locally based manufacturing.

For-profit ...Read more

The urban monkeys in New Delhi are so bold they’ll steal the lunch right off your plate. If you’ve spent time in New York, you’ve probably seen squirrels try to do the same. Sydney’s white ibises got the nickname “bin chickens” for stealing trash and sandwiches.

This brazen behavior isn’t normal for most species in the ...Read more