SpaceX says it will keep pursuing its lawsuit against the federal government as well as its rivals in the launch industry, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture, even though it's been cleared for billions of dollars in contracts for national security space missions. Both sides in the long-running dispute laid out their positions in a notice filed in U.S. District Court...
Death Valley is one of the hottest places on Earth, but it's home to more than 300 people...
A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour there due to lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions. Expedition leader Markus Rex said Wednesday the RV Polarstern was able to reach the geographic North Pole because of large openings in sea ice above Greenland, where shipping would...
A year ago this month, the forest around the town of Novo Progresso erupted into flames — the first major blazes in the Brazilian Amazon's dry season that ultimately saw more than 100,000 fires and spurred global outrage against the government’s inability or unwillingness to protect the rainforest. This year, President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning — typically started by...
It would cost around $675 million for a single round of testing for every worker and resident in a nursing home and assisted-living...