Japan’s first moon lander is aiming for a very small target
TOKYO (AP) — As Japan's space agency prepares for its first moon landing early Saturday, it's aiming to hit a very small target.The Smart...
Japan hopes to join an elite club by landing on the moon: A closer...
TOKYO (AP) — Japan hopes to make the world's first “pinpoint landing” on the moon early Saturday, joining a modern push for lunar contact...
Israeli company gets green light to make world’s first cultivated beef steaks
An Israeli company has received a preliminary green light from health officials to sell the world's first steaks made from cultivated beef cells, not...
Astronauts from Turkey, Sweden and Italy launch to space station on latest chartered flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Turkey’s first astronaut along with a Swede and Italian launched Thursday to the International Space Station on a chartered...
Largest deep-sea coral reef to date is mapped by scientists off the US Atlantic...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have mapped the largest coral reef deep in the ocean, stretching hundreds of miles off the U.S. Atlantic coast.While researchers...
US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again,...
Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually warm weather. However...
US company’s lunar lander will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after failed moonshot
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. company’s lunar lander will soon burn up in Earth’s atmosphere after a failed moonshot.Astrobotic Technology said its...
President says Iceland faces ‘daunting’ period after lava from volcano destroys homes in Grindavik
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland’s president said the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature,” after molten lava from a volcano in the island’s...
Indonesia’s Mount Marapi erupts again, leading to evacuations but no reported casualties
AGAM, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Marapi erupted again on Sunday, spewing smoke and ash high into the air, but no casualties were reported.The...
František Janouch, a Czech nuclear physicist who supported dissidents from Sweden, dies at age...
PRAGUE (AP) — František Janouch, a Czech nuclear physicist who set up a foundation in Sweden while in exile to support the dissident movement...
