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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...

For decades, the native iguanas of Fiji and Tonga have presented an evolutionary mystery. Every other living iguana species dwells in the Americas, from the Southwestern United States to the Caribbean and...

On a recent Friday morning, Daniel, a lawyer in his early 40s, was in a Zoom counseling session describing tapering off lithium. Earlier that week he had awakened with racing thoughts, so...

As President Trump works to blunt the growth of wind and solar power and expand fossil fuel production in the United States, the renewable energy industry is making a new pitch: You...

They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear...