Articles filed under Science
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Here's a fact: We went to the moon in 1969Jul 11, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, some people insist it never happened and was all a big hoax by the U.S. government. ...
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Former astronaut helps break flight record over polesJul 11, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A former astronaut landed back at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Thursday after helping to shatter a pair of records for a round-the-world ai...
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Greek find called earliest sign of our species out of AfricaJul 10, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists say they've identified the earliest sign of our species outside Africa, a chunk of skull recovered from a cave in southern Greece. Its estimat...
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Scientists get peek into how some fish change sex as adultsJul 10, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If in the beginning there was male and female, fish seem to have forgotten the memo. For nearly 500 fish species, including the clownfish in "Finding Nem...
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Elon Musk's satellites dot the heavens, leaving stargazers upsetJul 08, 2019 1:00 am - Two days after Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 satellites in May as part of a mission to bring quick internet service to people worldwide, astronomers noticed something d...
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Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion treesJul 04, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more. And there's enough room, Swiss scien...
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Mystery space object probably not aliensJul 03, 2019 12:00 am - All of the stars Matthew Knight saw through the giant telescope in Arizona were bright with persistent light. All of them but one, which appeared to be flashing, in a wa...
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NASA launches Orion crew capsule to test abort systemJul 02, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA conducted a full-stress launch abort test Tuesday for the Orion capsules designed to carry astronauts to the moon. The capsule was empty...
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Floating Antarctic ice goes from record high to record lowsJul 01, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The amount of ice circling Antarctica is suddenly plunging from a record high to record lows, baffling scientists. Floating ice off the southern contin...
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Don't recall Apollo 11? Global festivities have you coveredJul 01, 2019 7:00 am - You can run a race, hit a museum, shoot off a rocket or count down to the moment 50 years ago that Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon. There's no shortage of ...