Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result.
The launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, set for Sunday, marks a key test for the company and its founder, Jeff Bezos.
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors seek 15-year prison term for former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez for taking bribes and serving as a foreign agent.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans attacker fired at least 1 time from inside his truck before police fatally shot him, bodycam footage shows.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 4,000 structures have been destroyed in Altadena fire just outside Los Angeles, county fire chief says.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration succeeds in temporarily blocking a plea deal for the accused mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
A new study proposes a 'kiss and capture' collision theory to explain the origins of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, shedding ...
Jan. 21 (morning): The Moon, just shy of last quarter, is 3½° to the lower left of Spica in Virgo. Jan. 23 (evening): Mars, in Gemini, is 2½° to the right of Pollux in the eastern sky.
NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Yarrow, one-third of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, dies at 86.
A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems ...
A new U of A study challenges decades of scientific assumptions about the origin of Pluto and its moon Charon.