SpaceX Reuses A Rocket To Launch A Satellite
Updated 7:55 p.m. ET The most expensive part of doing business in outer space is getting there. The private space flight company SpaceX thinks it can change all that, and Thursday's successful reuse of...
View ArticleExperts Suspect Nerve Agent Was Used In Syrian Attack
Experts are increasingly confident that a powerful nerve agent was used to kill and injure victims in an attack on a rebel-held region of Syria on Tuesday. More than 70 people were killed in a bombing...
View ArticleTotal Failure: When The Space Shuttle Didn't Come Home
The morning that the space shuttle Columbia was supposed to return home, Wayne Hale was at the landing site. At age 48, Hale was an up-and-coming manager with NASA. He'd just taken a job overseeing...
View ArticleTotal Failure: The Mountain That Got Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJlYCNqzICc It was time for Emily Harrington to make a choice. Harrington is a professional climber . In 2014, she was trying to reach the top of the tallest peak in...
View ArticleMassive Iceberg Breaks Free In Antarctica
A massive iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from Antarctica and is floating in the sea. Earlier Wednesday, scientists announced that the 6,000-square-kilometer (about 2,300 square miles)...
View ArticleU.S. Already Feeling Consequences Of Global Warming, Draft Report Finds
Editor's note, Aug. 10: An earlier version of this story said the draft climate report had been leaked by The New York Times , which has since updated its coverage to reflect that a version of the...
View ArticleAs Eclipse Madness Sweeps U.S., A Stonehenge Made Of Cars Prepares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qthcTr-IQM Later this month, the moon's shadow will fall on Carhenge. "Holy cow man, guess what? There's going to be an eclipse," says Kevin Howard, the head of the...
View ArticleAs Rhetoric Escalates, What Do We Know About North Korea's Nuclear Arsenal?
This week saw a dramatic escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula. As North Korea promised to engulf the U.S. territory of Guam in "enveloping fire", President Trump tweeted that the U.S....
View ArticlePHOTOS: The Day The Eclipse Came To America
Eclipses are among the most predictable events on the planet. This one was known about for many decades before it crossed the U.S. earlier Monday. Accordingly, people had been planning eclipse road...
View ArticleHow A Warmer Climate Helped Shape Harvey
The rain just won't stop. More than two days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast, the downgraded storm continues to dump water across the region. So much rain has fallen in the...
View ArticleHere Are The Facts About North Korea's Nuclear Test
The blast was picked up by seismic stations all over the world, and it was big. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, which monitors the globe for nuclear tests, said that its monitoring...
View ArticleHow North Korea's Nuclear Tests Could Get Even More Terrifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5orHjD5FWc8 At 2:17 p.m. on May 6, 1962, a nuclear-tipped missile shot out of the waters of the Pacific Ocean and quickly disappeared into the sky. Roughly 12 minutes...
View ArticleFinal Report On MH370 Says Failure To Locate Airliner Is 'Almost Inconceivable'
A final report on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 says the fate of the vanished aircraft may never be known, despite years of searching and more than $150 million in costs. The report , which includes...
View ArticleCalifornia Blazes Are Part Of A Larger And Hotter Picture, Fire Researchers Say
The speed and ferocity of the wildfires raging through Northern California's wine country have caught many residents off guard and left state officials scrambling to contain the flames. But for fire...
View ArticleMysterious Radioactive Cloud Over Europe Hints At Accident Farther East
European authorities are providing new details about a cloud of mysterious radioactive material that appeared over the continent last month. Monitors in Italy were among first to detect the radioactive...
View ArticleClues In That Mysterious Radioactive Cloud Point Toward Russia
The tiny nation of Denmark has just three stations for monitoring atmospheric radiation. Each week, scientists change out air filters in the detectors and take the used ones to a technical university...
View ArticleNorth Korea Claims New Missile Makes It A Nuclear Power
North Korea says a new intercontinental ballistic missile tested on Wednesday proves it has a nuclear deterrent that can reach any target in the United States. According to a statement from the Korean...
View ArticleNew North Korean Missile Is A 'Monster'
The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea launched on Wednesday appears to be significantly larger and more powerful than previous versions, according to independent analysts. "It's a...
View ArticleNorth Korea Designed A Nuke. So Did This Truck Driver
This year, deep inside a mountain, North Korea detonated a giant nuclear bomb. The weapon was powerful ; at least 10 times more destructive than the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima at the end of...
View ArticleReview Of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Paints A Picture Of A More Dangerous Nuclear...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Just seven days after his inauguration, President Trump ordered the Pentagon to conduct a review - a review of the nation's nuclear...
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