When is the harvest moon supermoon this month?
You don't want to miss the upcoming supermoon because we won't get another chance to see another one until next year.
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Austin’s Only Natural History Museum Nearly Went Extinct. Now It’s Back and Better Than Ever.
The newly renovated Texas Science and Natural History Museum (formerly the Texas Memorial Museum) opens September 23.
A NASA spacecraft flew through massive solar explosion and caught it all on camera
The eruption caught on camera blasted interplanetary dust as far as six million miles away from the sun.
In his new book, the Houston infectious disease expert raises alarm bells about those who tout debunked claims about vaccines.
Tens of thousands march to kick off climate summit, demanding end to warming-causing fossil fuels
Protester said they were especially directing their efforts at many of the leaders of nations that cause the most heat-trapping carbon pollution.
NASA releases UFO report after yearlong study
The space agency released findings Thursday after a yearlong study into UFOs.
Sheep-cloning scientist Ian Wilmit, who set off scientific ethics debate, dead at 79
The lamb was named Dolly, after Dolly Parton. Her creation was a moment of reckoning for the scientific community around the ethics of cloning...
SpaceX can’t launch its giant rocket again until fixes are made, FAA says
The Starship launch explosion sent pieces of concrete and metal hurtling for thousands of feet and created a plume of pulverized concrete that spread...
Four astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule to wrap up six-month station mission
Another crew switch will occur later this month with the long-awaited homecoming of two Russians and one American who have been up there an...
Drought exposes never-before-seen tracks at Dinosaur Valley State Park
Volunteers have so far unearthed about 400 Sauropod and Therapod tracks at one site in the dried riverbed.
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal land managers to identify threats to older trees and measures to safeguard...
When is the blue supermoon tonight?
The moon will be the closest to earth — and the brightest it's been — all year.
Experts say it's expected to make tidal flooding worse not only in Florida, but in states such as Georgia and South Carolina.
This week’s ‘blue’ supermoon will be 2023’s biggest and brightest
The last time two full supermoons appeared in the same month was in 2018. It won’t happen again until 2037.
New crew for the space station launches with 4 astronauts from 4 countries
The astronauts' paths to space couldn’t be more different.
India lands a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, a first for the world as it joins elite club
After a failed attempt in 2019, India now joins the United States, the Soviet Union and China as only the fourth country to land...
Rain from Tropical Storm Hilary lashes California and Mexico, swamping roads and trapping cars
Forecasters expect it to enter the history books as the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years.
With only a sliver of moon in the sky, conditions this year will be ideal for seeing lots of meteors.
The Monkeys Who Died to Fight COVID
Texas Biomedical Research Institute helped subdue the coronavirus and has big plans for combating future disease threats—with controversial help from its thousands of research...
Videos shared on social media showed a house falling into rushing water as the river ate away at its banks.