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The Peregrine lunar lander is seen in October at Astrobotic Technology&rsquo;s facility in Pittsburgh. The expected launch date is Monday.

Two companies to attempt first U.S. moon landings since Apollo

The Peregrine lunar lander is seen in October at Astrobotic Technology&rsquo;s facility in Pittsburgh. The expected launch date is Monday.

January 5, 2024, 7:28pm Business

China and India scored moon landings, while Russia, Japan and Israel ended up in the lunar trash heap. Read story

Four species pose threat in Florida

January 5, 2024, 6:32am Life

Florida has long been home to an unnatural assortment of creatures from faraway lands and habitats, and these tourists turned permanent residents have wreaked havoc on the natural ecosystem. Read story

Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant orange external tank begins final journey

January 3, 2024, 7:51am Life

At long last, the final journey of the last space shuttle ever built, Endeavour, and its giant orange external tank are expected to begin this month — the capstone to a historic journey to an ambitious museum exhibit in Los Angeles. Read story

The Hanford LIGO facility near Tri-Cities is part of a network that includes a site 1,800 miles away in Louisiana.

Gravitational wave observatory in Eastern WA breaks quantum limit. Why it matters

The Hanford LIGO facility near Tri-Cities is part of a network that includes a site 1,800 miles away in Louisiana.

January 3, 2024, 7:27am Editor's Choice

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Read story

Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24. A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter&rsquo;s San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what&rsquo;s now known as X. (Godofredo A.

Social media soul-searches: Twitter dies, X and Threads are born and AI gets personal

Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24. A little more than a year ago, Elon Musk walked into Twitter&rsquo;s San Francisco headquarters, fired its CEO and other top executives and began transforming the social media platform into what&rsquo;s now known as X. (Godofredo A.

December 30, 2023, 5:48am Business

We lost Twitter and got X. We tried out Bluesky and Mastodon. We fretted about AI bots and teen mental health. We cocooned in private chats and scrolled endlessly as we did in years past. For social media users, 2023 was a year of beginnings and endings, with some soul-searching… Read story

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. The rocket was carrying the U.S. military&rsquo;s X-37B secret space plane.

US military space plane blasts off on another secretive mission expected to last years

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. The rocket was carrying the U.S. military&rsquo;s X-37B secret space plane.

December 29, 2023, 8:00am Life

The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane blasted off Thursday on another secretive mission that’s expected to last at least a couple of years. Read story

Jon Blue spins a backside-360 underneath Chair 8, which was not running yet Dec. 13, during opening day at Mt. Baker Ski Area.

Skiing into sustainability: Mt. Baker Ski Area spends millions to veer to renewable energy

Jon Blue spins a backside-360 underneath Chair 8, which was not running yet Dec. 13, during opening day at Mt. Baker Ski Area.

December 26, 2023, 6:00am Latest News

Skiers and snowboarders returned to a more sustainable Mt. Baker Ski Area, with millions spent to upgrade power sources to reach a future goal of using renewables. Read story

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Winter solstice 2023: Welcome to the shortest day of the year, Washington

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December 21, 2023, 8:07am Latest News

Eight hours, 25 minutes, 25 seconds — that’s how much daylight Mother Nature will grace us with today (how generous of her). Read story

Artemis II crew members from left, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, after meeting with President Joe Biden.

International astronaut to be invited on NASA moon landing

Artemis II crew members from left, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Jeremy Hansen speak to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, after meeting with President Joe Biden.

December 20, 2023, 4:03pm Nation & World

An international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on the moon by decade’s end under an agreement announced Wednesday by NASA and the White House. Read story

Less launch pad damage by SpaceX’s Starship bodes well for Space Coast facility

December 20, 2023, 8:07am Nation & World

Although SpaceX’s massive Starship and Super Heavy is still exploding mid-air during test flights, the fixes made to the launch pad have both company founder Elon Musk and NASA happy and could bode well for a pad planned for Florida’s Space Coast. Read story