World’s 1st space tourist signs up for weeklong flight around the moon

More than 20 years after his International Space Station trip, the 82-year-old billionaire could break John Glenn’s record as the oldest person in orbit.

Federal wildlife officials deny increase gopher tortoise protections in Florida

Gopher tortoises have long spurred debates in Florida, as development has spread and conservationists have pushed for habitat protections. Gopher tortoises are considered threatened by the state, which has a permitting process for capturing and relocating the animals.

Smashing success: NASA's DART spacecraft shifts asteroid's orbit

NASA says a spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away last month succeeded in shifting its orbit.

Three people fend off sharks while being rescued from sunken fishing boat

The Coast Guard says two people from a sunken fishing boat were fending off sharks in the Gulf of Mexico when a crew rescued them and one other person from waters off the Louisiana coastline.

The Pacific Ocean is shrinking and making way for America to collide with Asia, study shows

Hundreds of millions of years from now, Earth will look unrecognizable as the globe’s largest ocean vanishes, and researchers say the continent "Amasia" will form from the collision of North America and Asia.

Researchers concerned about impacts of Hurricane Ian on water and land

Images released by NASA show the storm surge from Hurricane Ian running back out to sea. The water appears to extend more than 100 miles off the coast, taking a big chunk of the shoreline with it. 

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With October's full Hunter's Moon overhead, Captain Dylan Hubbard of Hubbard's Marina says big moving tides will bring a killer weekend of fishing.

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann makes history as first Native American woman in space

Nicole Mann, a member of the Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, is headed to the International Space Station as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.

‘Hunter’s Moon’ 2022: How to watch this epic celestial wonder

This isn’t your typical moon, either. Because the Hunter’s Moon rises lower than usual from the horizon, it will appear much larger and more orange due to an effect known as the “moon illusion.”

SpaceX launches NASA, Japanese, Russian astronaut crew from Florida

Four astronauts from three countries launched on Wednesday with SpaceX on a six-month mission to the International Space Station. 

Fat Bear Week 2022: Meet this year's chunky challengers competing for the top spot

Bears are preparing for hibernation, and the public gets to judge a chosen sleuth of bears who have been packing on the pounds for this year's Fat Bear Week competition.

Asteroid slammed by NASA spacecraft has debris trail over 6,000 miles long

Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile, showing an expanding, comet-like tail after the asteroid impact.

Man finds rare purple pearl inside clam at Delaware restaurant

A Phoenixville, PA man was on vacation, enjoying a meal with his family at Salt Air Restaurant in Rehoboth Beach, DE when he came across a surprise in an order of clams: a purple pearl!