WAPAKONETA, Ohio — Inside Neil Armstrong's boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out of the rear window to measure how far they'd fly. Hanging in the room now are autographed photos of astronauts who've visited the privately kept ...
ADDU CITY, Maldives — A group of young people in the Maldives recently paddled kayaks to protest land reclamation work that was cutting through protected mangrove wetlands in a UNESCO biosphere reserve, even spray-painting "ECOCIDE" on a reclaimed patch. The nonprofit Project ThimaaVeshi, ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon's fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed ...
NEW YORK — In the past year, the U.S. has seen a jump in frequent marijuana users going to the hospital with a nausea and vomiting condition, according to a report released Thursday. "The abruptness and sustained magnitude of the increase" is largely due to the condition getting its own ...
MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian air crew flew an American from an Antarctic base to a New Zealand hospital in a rare midwinter rescue. The Airbus A319 Long Range aircraft, with the call sign Snowbird 1, flew from the Australian city of Hobart to the U.S. McMurdo Station in Antarctica ...
Dust storms that blanketed the Phoenix area in thick haze this week were among the most intense to hit the region in years, scientists said Thursday. The storms — called haboobs — occur throughout the U.S. Southwest when strong downdrafts from thunderstorms stir up loose dust and dirt ...
