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NASA’s oldest active astronaut felt as sick as he looked shortly after returning to Earth this month.

Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues came home aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on April 19, touching down in Kazakhstan to bring their…

SALT LAKE CITY — The Colorado River is a vital water source for a large chunk of the West, including Utah.

It’s believed that about 60% of Utahns directly benefit from the river, which accounts for some of the 40 million Americans who rely on it…

UPDATE (Monday, 10 a.m.) – Monday afternoon’s rocket launch is now scheduled for 1:42 p.m.

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UPDATE (Sunday, 5:30 p.m.) — SpaceX has pushed back the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

The company is now…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing.

Don Pettit marked…

In a remarkable archaeological discovery, a construction project at San Pedro High School in California unearthed thousands of marine fossils hidden beneath the school grounds. The discovery, reported by Los Angeles Times, unveils two distinct…

Mathematicians have recently solved a problem that has eluded scientists for over 125 years, bridging three key theories that describe the motion of fluids. This milestone addresses a long-standing challenge in unifying different levels of fluid…

Last week, the mainstream news was filled with headlines about K2-18b — an exoplanet some 124 light-years away from Earth that 98% of the population had never even heard about. Even astronomers weren’t aware of its existence until…

A 53-year-old Venus probe that failed to escape low Earth orbit is expected to make an uncontrolled reentry in the coming weeks. Built to withstand extreme heat, parts of the spacecraft could survive…

In a groundbreaking experiment, physicists have successfully created the first-ever black hole bomb in a laboratory setting. This concept, which was first proposed in 1969 by the renowned physicist Roger Penrose, has remained largely theoretical…