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An international team of astronomers on Wednesday unveiled the most compelling evidence to date that dark energy — a mysterious phenomenon pushing our universe to expand ever faster — is not a...

In the last few years, foodborne pathogens have had devastating consequences that alarmed the public. Bacteria in infant formula sickened babies. Deli meat ridden with listeria killed 10 people and led to...

With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports.“That’s never happened before,”...

SpaceX and the Coast Guard work together to try to keep civilian boaters away from returning spacecraft after astronauts splash down in the water. But on Tuesday night, they could not do...

They set off to spend eight days at the space station. The trip lasted nine months.On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore,...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip.Instead of culling birds when the infection...

The NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on their way back to Earth after nine months at the International Space Station. But they were not the first to stay...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a century of combined experience as astronauts. But this is just their third time in space.Ms. Williams was born in Ohio but grew up...

The folk song “Frog Went a-Courtin’” recounts the efforts of a sword- and pistol-toting frog to woo a mouse, who warns him that without the consent of her Uncle Rat she “wouldn’t...

March 17, 2025, 10:00 p.m. ETButch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the morning of the launch at Cape Canaveral on June 5.Credit...Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesButch Wilmore and Suni Williams have nearly half a...