Science

When the letter arrived at Westil Gonzalez’s prison cell saying that he had been granted parole, he couldn’t read it. Over the 33 years he had been locked up for murder, multiple...

The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket failed on Thursday as the vehicle’s upper stage experienced a catastrophic malfunction as it headed upward to space.SpaceX was able to achieve some success...

While winds and flames continued to ravage Los Angeles, small teams began creeping onto the charred soils left in their wake.Roughly a dozen members of the California Watershed Emergency Response Teams and...

The Biden administration on Thursday withdrew a proposal to expand protections for an endangered whale species. The rules would have required some ships along the Eastern Seaboard to slow down.North Atlantic right...

A couple in Canada were returning home from walking their dogs some months ago when they found a burst of dusty debris on their walkway. They turned to their security-camera footage for...

It’s not exactly the best moment to pitch ultraprocessed foods as healthy and delicious, but that’s exactly what two major producers of plant-based meat are trying to do.Beyond Meat wants to convince...

On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos’ space company sent its first rocket into orbit.At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines...

Blue Origin’s motto is “Gradatim Ferociter!,” which is Latin for “step by step, ferociously!” The company’s mascot is a tortoise.In the early years, it operated shrouded in secrecy. It started with its...

Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty much everywhere. Our species has spread across frozen tundras, settled on mountaintops...

Of all the government agencies that President-elect Donald J. Trump has threatened to shrink or eliminate, perhaps none has been a greater target than the Environmental Protection Agency.During the first Trump administration,...