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Astronauts take shelter during space station repair

NASA on Friday temporarily ordered astronauts to take shelter during repairs to fix a fresh leak aboard the International Space Station. The five astronauts moved into the SpaceX capsule that is docked at the station while cosmonauts worked to fix the leak, which is on the Russian side of the ...

Study: Wildfires add to US smog levels

WASHINGTON — For more than a decade, the United States dramatically reduced its national smog levels, but since 2015 smoke from increasingly larger wildfires is reversing that clean-up trend and making the air dirtier and deadlier, a new study finds. Scientists say climate change deserves ...

Artemis 2 marks our grand return to Moon

This year is a grand year of record-breaking history already, since this is the first time in over 50 years that humans have returned to the Moon. Space exploration has begun again! This new spacecraft, Artemis 2, has traveled from Earth, around the Moon, and back. The crew on this mission ...

Chinese astronauts return after 7 months in space

HONG KONG — Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending nearly seven months in space, setting a record for the longest on-orbit stay by a Chinese crew. The craft carrying Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang of the Shenzhou 21 crew touched down at the Dongfeng ...

Indonesia marks 2 decades since mud volcano destroyed towns

SIDOARJO, Indonesia — Residents in the East Java province of Indonesia scattered flowers, paid their respects and prayed at the edge of a mud lake on Friday, the 20th anniversary of the eruption of the Lusi mud volcano that inundated villages and killed at least 14 people. The eruption on ...

El Nino lessens Atlantic hurricane forecast

A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won't make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued ...