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China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon

Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species

A California school has planted a tree that’s out of this world

The spacecraft will complete nearly 50 flybys of the Jupiter moon of Europa to determine if there are conditions suitable for life.

A NASA spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and reveal whether its hidden ocean might hold the keys to life

NASA spacecraft launches on a 5 1/2-year journey to Jupiter's moon Europa

Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed a Viking Age burial ground containing some 50 “exceptionally well-preserved” skeletons

A tech consultant has gone on trial over a year after the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco

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SpaceX mechanical arms successfully catch mega Starship rocket booster at landing pad

SpaceX has pulled off the boldest test flight yet of its enormous Starship rocket

SpaceX launches its mega Starship rocket on a fifth test flight

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Helene downed power lines and washed out roads all over North Carolina’s mountains, the roar of gas-powered generators is both unpleasant and essential

A massive NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa

The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion

Back in 2016, the artificial intelligence maker OpenAI had just incorporated as a nonprofit and applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status

TikTok has been aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective

The latest solar storm has triggered northern lights farther south than normal including into parts of Germany, the United Kingdom, New England and New York City

Scientists say human-caused climate change intensified deadly Hurricane Milton’s rainfall by 20 to 30% and strengthened its winds by about 10%

Travis Kelce adding game show host to his growing resume with “Are You Smarter than a Celebrity?"

Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google’s California headquarters to celebrate

One of the two companies that manufacture high-purity quartz used for making semiconductors from mines in a western North Carolina community harmed by Hurricane Helene is operating again

Phones hold so much of our digital lives that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device

Thousands of flights in and out of the U.S. have been canceled this week as Hurricane Milton barreled into the Gulf of Mexico and plowed across Florida

Tesla unveiled its long-awaited robotaxi at a Hollywood studio Thursday night, though fans of the electric vehicle maker will have to wait until at least 2026 before they are available

Marriott International has agreed to pay $52 million and make changes to bolster its data security

With its mighty strength and its dangerous path, Hurricane Milton has powered into a very rare threat that is flirting with experts’ worst fears

Twin brothers who were born conjoined recently celebrated their first birthday after undergoing successful separation surgery

Space weather forecasters say a severe solar storm heading to Earth could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes

Scientists now know what the head of the biggest bug to ever crawl the Earth looks like

The social media platform X is returning to Brazil after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between its owner, Elon Musk, and a justice on the country’s highest court

Elon Musk's X platform is back in Brazil after a nearly six-week suspension, having complied with all judicial demands

Amazon has revealed new technology that it says will help delivery drivers avoid organizing packages at stops or manually check to see if they have the right parcel for each delivery

A cyberattack continues to affect the nation's largest regulated water and wastewater utility company, renewing a focus on the importance of protecting critical infrastructure

A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting

Wimbledon is replacing line judges with electronic line-calling to mark the latest step into the modern age by the oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for work on proteins

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life

The U.S. Department of Justice is considering asking a federal judge to force Google to sell parts of its business in order to eliminate its online search monopoly

Scientists say human-caused climate change boosted the rainfall of deadly Hurricane Helene by about 10% and intensified its winds by about 11%

The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday authorized the restoration of social media platform X´s service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a statement posted on the court’s website

Musk’s X will be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court justice’s demands, a court statement says

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok

More than a dozen states sue TikTok, claiming its platform is addictive and harms the mental health of children

Nobel Prize in physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for discoveries that enable machine learning

Social media users across the European Union will soon have a new forum to challenge decisions by platforms to remove posts and videos for breaking their rules or leave up others that may violate them

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics

Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died

American Water serves 14 million people in 14 states, 18 military installations.

In the wake of hurricanes that have disrupted lives for millions in the U.S., some people may wonder if extreme weather events could be somehow controlled