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This photo provided by NASA, astronauts NASA's Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata venture out on a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Their job was to install support struts for small solar panels launching this summer, part of a continuing effort by NASA to expand the space station's power grid.

First Native American woman in space steps out on spacewalk

This photo provided by NASA, astronauts NASA's Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata venture out on a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Their job was to install support struts for small solar panels launching this summer, part of a continuing effort by NASA to expand the space station's power grid.

January 20, 2023, 8:10am Life

The first Native American woman in space ventured out on a spacewalk Friday to prep the International Space Station for more solar panels. Read story

Changing the labels on fast food may have an impact on climate change.

Could fast-food labels ease climate change?

Changing the labels on fast food may have an impact on climate change.

January 20, 2023, 6:03am Life

Could ordering a McChicken, as opposed to a Big Mac, help in the fight against climate change? Read story

The Tramontina Guru cook system is on display at the Tramontina booth booth during the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Nutrition gets boost with new smart tech

The Tramontina Guru cook system is on display at the Tramontina booth booth during the CES tech show Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Las Vegas.

January 17, 2023, 6:00am Food

From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl designed to take the hassle out of tracking calories, food tech was a key theme at this year’s CES tech show in Las Vegas. Read story

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

EXPLAINER: What came together to make deadly Alabama tornado

The roof of a local businesses is strewn about after a tornado passed through Selma, Ala., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.

January 13, 2023, 7:58am Nation & World

A La Nina weather pattern, warm moist air coming from an unusually toasty Gulf of Mexico, likely juiced by climate change, and a decades long eastward shift of tornadoes came together to create the unusually early and deadly storm system that hit Alabama Thursday, meteorologists said. Read story

A repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl, carrying Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket, takes off from Spaceport Cornwall at Cornwall Airport, Newquay, England, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The plane will carry the rocket to 35,000 feet where it will be released over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Ireland, as part of the Start Me Up mission and the first rocket launch from U.K. The rocket will take multiple small satellites, with a variety of civil and defence applications, into orbit.

UK space industry mulls setback after satellite launch fails

A repurposed Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 aircraft, named Cosmic Girl, carrying Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket, takes off from Spaceport Cornwall at Cornwall Airport, Newquay, England, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The plane will carry the rocket to 35,000 feet where it will be released over the Atlantic Ocean to the south of Ireland, as part of the Start Me Up mission and the first rocket launch from U.K. The rocket will take multiple small satellites, with a variety of civil and defence applications, into orbit.

January 10, 2023, 8:35am Life

British officials and space scientists said Tuesday they were disappointed but not deterred after the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. ended in failure. Read story

Close up photograph of the mammal foot among the ribs of Microraptor.

Fossil shows dinosaur ate mammals

Close up photograph of the mammal foot among the ribs of Microraptor.

January 10, 2023, 6:00am Life

An “unusual” fossil revealed that a small, carnivorous dinosaur consumed mammals, demystifying the diet of the long-extinct creature, researchers said. Read story

Five of history’s craziest coincidences

January 10, 2023, 6:00am Life

Are coincidences just random acts, or the work of fate or God? You be the judge for these five extraordinary coincidences. Read story

FILE - In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066

FILE - In this NASA false-color image, the blue and purple shows the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer over Antarctica on Oct. 5, 2022. Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

January 9, 2023, 8:42am Nation & World

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says. Read story

Plane prepares to take off for first UK satellite launch

January 9, 2023, 8:33am Nation & World

Engineers are making final preparations for the first satellite launch from the U.K. later Monday, when a repurposed passenger plane is expected to release a Virgin Orbit rocket carrying several small satellites into space. Read story

In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low." It's expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours.

Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat

In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low." It's expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours.

January 6, 2023, 3:56pm Latest News

A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. Read story