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Asteroid to Make One of Closest Approaches to Earth Ever Recorded
An asteroid about the size of a box truck is expected to make one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded, NASA said Wednesday.
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Biden's Next Climate Hurdle: Enticing Americans to Buy Green
President Joe Biden persuaded Democrats in Congress to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change. Now comes another formidable task: enticing Americans to buy millions of electric cars, heat pumps, solar panels and more efficient appliances.
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FDA Proposes Once-a-Year COVID Vaccine for Most Americans
The U.S. health regulator on Monday proposed the use of one dose of the latest updated COVID-19 shot annually for most people, similar to the influenza immunization campaign, as it moves to simplify the country's vaccination strategy. Currently, people in the United States...
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Lab-Grown Meat Could Be Available in Restaurants This Year
Once the stuff of science fiction, lab-grown meat could become reality in some restaurants in the United States as early as this year. Executives at cultivated meat companies are optimistic that meat grown in massive steel vats could be on the menu within months after one...
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Satellite Mapping Finds New Colony of Emperor Penguins
Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday.
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Rep. Tim Burchett to Newsmax: Govt 'Cover-Up Will Continue' on UFOs
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., commended, albeit skeptically, an amendment added to the National Defense Authorization Act in December that would demand the Department of Defense review historical documents regarding an alleged UFO sighting in 1945.
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Rep. Jim Jordan Sounds Off Against TSA Using China-Style Facial Scans at Airports
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has sounded off a warning against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) using facial recognition software at domestic airports, as a means of tracking the habits and whereabouts of the American people.
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Official: Russian Combat Robots on Way to Ukraine
Russia is set to send autonomous "Marker" combat robots able to determine targets with AI technology and fire on them to the front lines in its invasion of Ukraine, Russian state media reports.
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Rep. Tim Burchett to Newsmax: Govt Covering Up Past UFO Finds
The U.S. government is "covering up" the truth about Unidentified Flying Objects, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told Newsmax on Monday, saying sightings are even written down in the Bible.
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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch Lights Up Florida Sky
After a three-year hiatus, SpaceX celebrated its second successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Russia Sets New Contingency Plan for International Space Station
Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced new contingency plans on Saturday for the three crew of a damaged capsule docked to the International Space Station.
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Migrants Can Now Use Mobile App to Request Entry at US Border
Migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border can now use a mobile app to schedule a time to approach a land port of entry, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed on Thursday, a move intended to reduce unauthorized crossings but which has sparked concerns...
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James Webb Telescope Discovers Earth-Size Rocky Exoplanet
Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered an exoplanet, a planet that orbits a star, which is roughly the same size as the Earth but a few hundred degrees warmer, NASA said Wednesday.
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House COVID Panel to Focus on Virus Origin, Funding
The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Response, now with a Republican majority, will be charged with examining the origins of the pandemic, including federal funding of gain-of-function research following the passing of the rules package, The Hill reported.
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MIT Scientists Discover 'Self-Healing' Properties of Roman Concrete
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a discovery regarding Roman concrete - concrete that has withstood millennia.
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Old NASA Satellite Falling From Sky This Weekend, Low Threat
A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low." Most of the 5,400-pound (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon reentry, according to NASA. But some pieces are expected to...
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Israeli Researcher Develops Plan for Solar Power Plant on the Moon
As NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon in 2025, an Israeli professor's solution for generating renewable energy on the lunar surface, presented to NASA in August, would bring solar power to Earth's nearest large celestial body.
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Apollo 7 Astronaut Walter Cunningham Dead at 90
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died.
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Chips Cash 'Tsunami' Might Be Slow Tide for US Semiconductors
The Biden administration's Chips Act has pumped money into the industry to bolster U.S. production and reduce foreign dependency, but it comes with challenges that include the slow roll of building factories, building a workforce, and competing for expertise.
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Video Report: NOAA Failed to Project This Deep Freeze
Snow flurries and below freezing temperatures were reported as far south as central Florida, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's forecast this winter projected no states in America to be below normal this winter, Newsmax's Leonardo Feldman reports.
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SKorea's Mirae Asset to Invest $72M in Musk's Space X
South Korea's Mirae Asset Financial Group affiliates plan to invest a total of 93 billion won ($72.43 million) in Space X in January 2023, a person with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday.
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World's Largest Laser to Test Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
The world's largest laser, housed in the National Ignition Facility at Livermore, California, and which science-fiction fans will recognize from the film "Star Trek: Into Darkness," will test the new breakthrough in energy technology: nuclear fusion.
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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Nuclear Fusion 'God's Greatest Gift' Since Jesus Christ
Political strategist Dick Morris Saturday on Newsmax hailed the announcement concerning nuclear fusion as a potential energy source that will change the world.
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Once-in-a-Generation Storm Could Affect 200M Americans
The winter warnings or watches connected to the so-called bomb cyclone storm now have a reported reach of approximately 200 million Americans, according to an update from Axios.
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NASA Ends InSight Mars Mission After 4 Years
The four-year journey of NASA's InSight Mars lander has ended after the space agency was unable to establish contact, believing the spacecraft's solar power-generated batteries had run out of energy.