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These images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday.

NASA: It’s actually a reddish snowman

These images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft encountered it on Tuesday.

January 3, 2019, 6:00am Nation & World

A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what looks like a reddish snowman. Read story

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., center, celebrates with school children at the exact moment that the New Horizons spacecraft made the closest approach of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule, early Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

NASA spacecraft opens new year at tiny, icy world past Pluto

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., center, celebrates with school children at the exact moment that the New Horizons spacecraft made the closest approach of Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule, early Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.

January 1, 2019, 9:10am Nation & World

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another world. Read story

FILE - This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA launched the probe in 2006; it’s about the size of a baby grand piano. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past the mysterious object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.

NASA spacecraft hurtles toward tiny, icy world beyond Pluto

FILE - This illustration provided by NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft. NASA launched the probe in 2006; it’s about the size of a baby grand piano. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to fly past the mysterious object nicknamed Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019.

December 31, 2018, 9:46am Life

A tiny, icy world a billion miles beyond Pluto is getting a New Year’s Day visitor. Read story

A San Diego man created a button people can press to file a complaint about airplane noise. Barbara Deckert has used it to log over 3,275 airplane noise complaints in the last 30 days.

With push of button, complaint on airplane noise is filed

A San Diego man created a button people can press to file a complaint about airplane noise. Barbara Deckert has used it to log over 3,275 airplane noise complaints in the last 30 days.

December 29, 2018, 8:53pm Nation & World

Barbara Deckert has a new weapon in the war against airplane noise — and she’s not afraid to use it. Read story

A 27-year-old self-described tech addict poses for a portrait Dec. 9 in front of a video game store at a mall in Everett. He asked to remain anonymous because he works in the tech industry and fears that speaking out about the negatives of excessive tech use could hurt his career.

‘Tech addicts’ find help in tech HUB

A 27-year-old self-described tech addict poses for a portrait Dec. 9 in front of a video game store at a mall in Everett. He asked to remain anonymous because he works in the tech industry and fears that speaking out about the negatives of excessive tech use could hurt his career.

December 28, 2018, 10:21pm Health Wire

We like to say we’re addicted to our phones or an app or some new show on a streaming video service. Read story

Christmas in space: Spokane’s Anne McClain, crewmates celebrate holiday aboard International Space Station

December 28, 2018, 9:25am Northwest

Like Santa, Spokane native Lt. Col. Anne McClain spent this Christmas circling the Earth. Read story

FILE - This image made available by NASA in March 2017 shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers). The probe will ring in 2019 by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world.

Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant world

FILE - This image made available by NASA in March 2017 shows Pluto illuminated from behind by the sun as the New Horizons spacecraft travels away from it at a distance of about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers). The probe will ring in 2019 by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world.

December 27, 2018, 9:47am Life

The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. Read story

Researcher Stephanie Torrey stands over chickens under observation on Oct. 12 at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Researchers are tracking chicken traits like weight, growth rate and meat quality they hope will be useful to the poultry industry.

Researchers: What makes chickens happy?

Researcher Stephanie Torrey stands over chickens under observation on Oct. 12 at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Researchers are tracking chicken traits like weight, growth rate and meat quality they hope will be useful to the poultry industry.

December 27, 2018, 6:00am Life

How do you measure a chicken’s happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? Read story

Computerized brain training can hold off cognitive decline and dementia, research suggests, and researchers have been quite successful at devising ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and earlier.

Genetic signatures could explain why some appear younger, older than their age

Computerized brain training can hold off cognitive decline and dementia, research suggests, and researchers have been quite successful at devising ways to diagnose Alzheimer’s earlier and earlier.

December 27, 2018, 6:00am Life

Some people appear to be considerably younger or older than their chronological age. Genetic signatures that may help explain this have been discovered by scientists at the Salk Institute. Read story

An artist’s concept of a dwarf planet that astronomers say is the farthest known object in the solar system.

Scientists name solar system’s farthest known object ‘Farout’

An artist’s concept of a dwarf planet that astronomers say is the farthest known object in the solar system.

December 27, 2018, 6:00am Life

Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system — and they’ve nicknamed the pink cosmic body “Farout.” Read story