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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The spacecraft will travel to the metallic asteroid Psyche, where it will enter orbit in 2029 and be the first spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid.

NASA spacecraft launched to mysterious and rare metal asteroid in first mission of its kind

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The spacecraft will travel to the metallic asteroid Psyche, where it will enter orbit in 2029 and be the first spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid.

October 13, 2023, 10:34am Life

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a six-year journey to a rare metal-covered asteroid. Read story

Books on Navajo culture are displayed, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Gallup, N.M., during a learning session on how to observe Navajo new year and the annular "ring of fire" solar eclipse. The prime viewing path for the eclipse Saturday will cut diagonally across the Western U.S., including the Navajo Nation, the largest land base of any Native American tribe in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

For Indigenous people, solar eclipse often about reverence and tradition, not revelry

Books on Navajo culture are displayed, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Gallup, N.M., during a learning session on how to observe Navajo new year and the annular "ring of fire" solar eclipse. The prime viewing path for the eclipse Saturday will cut diagonally across the Western U.S., including the Navajo Nation, the largest land base of any Native American tribe in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

October 12, 2023, 7:45am Latest News

For a few hours, Krystal Curley and her Indigenous women’s work group took over a college auditorium to share traditional Navajo practices regarding this weekend’s highly anticipated solar eclipse. More than 50 people — young and old — showed up for the chance to either connect with or remember cultural… Read story

A researcher holds a coqui guajon, or rock frog, in Patillas, Puerto Rico, in 2013.

Threats to already vulnerable amphibians are increasing

A researcher holds a coqui guajon, or rock frog, in Patillas, Puerto Rico, in 2013.

October 10, 2023, 6:00am Life

The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. Read story

Tech review: New iPhones ditch lightning in favor of USB-C

October 8, 2023, 6:00am Business

The new iPhone 15 models are out. Read story

Mats Larsson, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, standing at left, speaks during the announcement of the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, at the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for looking at electrons in atoms by the tiniest of split seconds.

Things to know about the Nobel Prizes

Mats Larsson, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, standing at left, speaks during the announcement of the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, at the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for looking at electrons in atoms by the tiniest of split seconds.

October 3, 2023, 7:54am Nation & World

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. Read story

FILE - Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krausz speaks on, Feb. 14, 2022, in Budapest, Hungary. Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on how electrons move around the atom during the tiniest fractions of seconds. The field could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. The prize went to Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany; and Anne L'Huillier of Lund University in Sweden.

Agostini, Krausz and L’Huillier win physics Nobel for looking at electrons in fractions of seconds

FILE - Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krausz speaks on, Feb. 14, 2022, in Budapest, Hungary. Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on how electrons move around the atom during the tiniest fractions of seconds. The field could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. The prize went to Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany; and Anne L'Huillier of Lund University in Sweden.

October 3, 2023, 7:54am Latest News

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for studying how electrons zip around the atom in the tiniest fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses. Read story

An annular or "ring of fire" eclipse is visible through the ceiling of an ancient building in Kaifeng, in central China's Henan province, on Jan. 15, 2010.

‘Ring of fire’: Plan ahead if you want to see annular eclipse in the Northwest

An annular or "ring of fire" eclipse is visible through the ceiling of an ancient building in Kaifeng, in central China's Henan province, on Jan. 15, 2010.

October 3, 2023, 6:05am Clark County Life

Don’t get burned, burned, burned by the ring of fire that will slice across North American skies on Oct. 14. With the right protective eyewear, viewing this unusual space spectacle should be fine, fine, fine. Read story

From left: Volunteer Donna Kalil, airboat pilot Dave Hackathorn and volunteer Dave Wagner hunt for pythons in the Everglades west of Weston, Fla., on Aug. 12, 2022.

Hunters are paid to kill pythons in Florida’s Everglades

From left: Volunteer Donna Kalil, airboat pilot Dave Hackathorn and volunteer Dave Wagner hunt for pythons in the Everglades west of Weston, Fla., on Aug. 12, 2022.

October 3, 2023, 5:55am Life

Monsters slither throughout the crooked mangroves and serrated sawgrass of Florida’s Everglades, 20 feet long and up to 200 pounds of sinewy muscle built by devouring everything in their path. In a state chock full of invasive birds, fish, lizards and bugs, the Burmese python reigns supreme. Read story

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The extended mission means that Rubio now holds the record for longest spaceflight by an American.

Three astronauts return to Earth after a year in space. NASA’s Frank Rubio sets US space record

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is helped out of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft just minutes after he and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The extended mission means that Rubio now holds the record for longest spaceflight by an American.

September 27, 2023, 8:08am Life

A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight — a result of the extended stay. Read story

The Milky Way can be viewed in the night sky within the Boulder City, Nevada limits, as seen on Thursday, July 20, 2023.

Nevada communities combat light pollution

The Milky Way can be viewed in the night sky within the Boulder City, Nevada limits, as seen on Thursday, July 20, 2023.

September 26, 2023, 6:00am Life

Las Vegas is a city that never sleeps, and neither do its glittering lights. Read story