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A Russian space capsule with three astronauts aboard has blasted off for a fast-track trip to the International Space Station. Saturday’s launch took place on the 50th anniversary of the day U.S. astronauts landed on the moon. The capsule entered orbit nine minutes after liftoff from Russia’s launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It is carrying […]

Americans from Texas to Maine sweated out a steamy Saturday as a heat wave canceled events from festivals to horse races and pushed New York City to order power-saving steps to avoid overtaxing the electrical grid. The National Weather Service said “a dangerous heat wave” was expected to break record highs in some places, particularly

A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of humanity’s first footsteps on another world Saturday, gathering in record heat at races and other festivities to commemorate Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s “giant leap” on Apollo 11. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, cars were backed up for miles outside the visitor complex at opening time. In

Protesters fighting the construction of a giant telescope on a mountain some Native Hawaiians consider sacred say the standoff is about more than the project. Longtime Native Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte says he’s opposing the telescope for the same reasons he fought military bombing practice on a small island decades ago. Ritte and other activists

No one who was alive then can forget the sights and sounds of that weekend in 1969. The drawling voices of “Houston” guiding the lunar module gingerly into its assigned parking place on the face of the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin floating with each step, like kids in one of those aptly named

The Canadian government says two more rare North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the country’s waters, worsening a disastrous year for the marine mammals. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the causes of the animals‘ deaths aren’t yet known. Officials say a necropsy will take place for one of the animals Sunday in

A pocket-sized pocket shark found in the Gulf of Mexico has turned out to be a new species. And the mysterious pouches that it’s named for, up near its front fins? Scientists say they squirt little glowing clouds into the ocean. Researchers from around the Gulf and in New York have named the species the

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. The Apollo 11 mission returned to Earth in July 1969 with boxes of moon rocks and rolls of iconic photographs: a boot print on the moon, a wrinkled American flag, a portrait of Buzz Aldrin

       Nevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department to look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert. In a letter made public Wednesday, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak told

Mr. First invoked a lyric from Buffalo Springfield’s 1966 song “For What It’s Worth” to describe the situation: “There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” Can Libra survive? President Trump. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The Fed chair, Jay Powell. The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, Gita Gopinath. The Securities and Exchange Commission.