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Cloud cover across Western WA likely to spoil super blue moon view

August 31, 2023, 7:43am Latest News

Showers will subside in the wake of thunderstorm activity Wednesday as temperatures remain cozy and cool across Western Washington. Read story

FILE - A supermoon rises beyond a beer sign at Kauffmann Stadium during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets, Aug. 1, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. Stargazers are in for a double treat on Wednesday night, Aug. 30: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of August, the reason it's considered blue. It's dubbed a supermoon because it's closer to Earth than usual, appearing especially big and bright.

Rare blue supermoon brightens the night sky this week in the closest full moon of the year

FILE - A supermoon rises beyond a beer sign at Kauffmann Stadium during a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the New York Mets, Aug. 1, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. Stargazers are in for a double treat on Wednesday night, Aug. 30: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of August, the reason it's considered blue. It's dubbed a supermoon because it's closer to Earth than usual, appearing especially big and bright.

August 29, 2023, 8:03am Life

Stargazers are in for a double treat this week: a rare blue supermoon with Saturn peeking from behind. Read story

International Fund for Animal Welfare members carry a stranded common dolphin to a vehicle while another dolphin waits to be rescued at Herring River on Jan. 19, 2012, in Wellfleet, Mass.

Dolphins get own hospital on Cape Cod, Mass.

International Fund for Animal Welfare members carry a stranded common dolphin to a vehicle while another dolphin waits to be rescued at Herring River on Jan. 19, 2012, in Wellfleet, Mass.

August 29, 2023, 6:02am Life

When members of the marine mammal team from the International Fund for Animal Welfare rush to a Cape Cod beach to help a stranded dolphin or porpoise, they have no choice but to treat the endangered animal on site and then immediately release it. Read story

Emperor penguin chicks stand together in Antarctica on Dec. 21, 2005. The loss of ice in a region near Antarctica's Bellingshausen Sea in 2022 likely resulted in none of the emperor penguin chicks surviving in four colonies in that area, researchers reported Thursday in Nature Communications Earth and Environment.

Record ice melt dooms penguin chicks

Emperor penguin chicks stand together in Antarctica on Dec. 21, 2005. The loss of ice in a region near Antarctica's Bellingshausen Sea in 2022 likely resulted in none of the emperor penguin chicks surviving in four colonies in that area, researchers reported Thursday in Nature Communications Earth and Environment.

August 29, 2023, 6:02am Life

Emperor penguin chicks emerge from their eggs in the coldest days of Antarctica’s winter. For the first months of their lives the birds are defenseless gray fluffballs, seeking warmth at their parents’ feet or in protective scrums at the center of their colony. Read story

The hinge allows for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 to fold completely flat.

Tech review: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 keeps evolving, improving

The hinge allows for the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 to fold completely flat.

August 27, 2023, 6:02am Business

I love a company that sticks with a concept long enough to see it evolve into something great. Read story

NASA's Psyche project manager Henry Stone shows journalists the probe in the clean room at Astrotech's facilities in Titsusville, Florida on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

Long wait nearly over for Psyche asteroid probe’s Space Coast launch

NASA's Psyche project manager Henry Stone shows journalists the probe in the clean room at Astrotech's facilities in Titsusville, Florida on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023.

August 27, 2023, 6:00am Life

Just off a tree-covered side road past businesses selling boats and fishing gear sits a fenced-off building that’s home to a $700 million satellite nearly ready for launch. Its mission: To study the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, which scientists suspect could mirror the inner core of Earth and other planets in… Read story

Artist Ron Lee Christianson examines a custom computer case at Blue Horse Studios in Vancouver.

That’s a computer? Vancouver’s Blue Horse Studios builds out of this world PCs

Artist Ron Lee Christianson examines a custom computer case at Blue Horse Studios in Vancouver.

August 26, 2023, 6:10am Business Subscriber Exclusive

The PCs that Ron Lee Christianson builds don’t look like computers at all. Read story

Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.

India lands a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, a first for the world as it joins elite club

Schoolchildren celebrate the successful landing of spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, in a school in Guwahati, India, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. India has landed a spacecraft near the moon's south pole, an unchartered territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water and precious elements, as the country cements its growing prowess in space and technology.

August 23, 2023, 8:50am Life

India on Wednesday made history as it became the first country in the world to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, an uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, and the fourth country to achieve a moon landing. Read story

FILE - In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The failure of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

A failed lunar mission dents Russian pride and reflects deeper problems with Moscow’s space industry

FILE - In this photo taken from video and released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russia's Far East, on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. The failure of the robotic Luna-25 probe, which crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend, reflects the endemic problems that have dogged the Russian space industry since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.

August 22, 2023, 12:57pm Life

An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow’s once-proud space program. Read story

Before they are released into a pond near Lakewood, Emily Butler -- assistant district wildlife biologist with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife --checks the turtles' scutes for identification and double checks their passive integrated transponder tags with a volunteer on Aug.

State, zoo team to save endangered northwestern pond turtles by releasing them into safe home

Before they are released into a pond near Lakewood, Emily Butler -- assistant district wildlife biologist with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife --checks the turtles' scutes for identification and double checks their passive integrated transponder tags with a volunteer on Aug.

August 22, 2023, 6:05am Life

Nearly a year they wait, munching on crickets, mealworms and small chunks of fish to pass the time. Read story