Secretive robot spaceplane breaks own record: 781 days in space

The military’s classified X-37B mini-shuttle has once again broken its own record for longest space mission, and there's no telling how much longer it may go.

Spain's Running of the Bulls fills streets after 2-year COVID hiatus; no gorings

No one was gored during Spain’s San Fermín festival in Pamplona, but several runners took knocks and hard falls during the first bull run in three years.

Back online: Communications restored with NASA moon spacecraft

Engineers have restored communications with NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft en route to the moon Wednesday after teams worked tirelessly for 24 hours to get to the bottom of the problem with the tiny spacecraft nearly 200,000 miles from Earth.

The CERN Large Hadron Collider was rebooted and is already discovering exotic particles

The physics lab that’s home to the world’s largest atom smasher has announced the observation of three new “exotic particles” that could provide clues to the force that binds subatomic particles together.

76-million-year-old Gorgosaurus skeleton to be auctioned

The fossilized skeleton of a T. rex relative that roamed the earth about 76 million years ago will be auctioned in New York this month, Sotheby's announced Tuesday.

Long Island shark attack: Beaches reopen with drones on patrol

Lifeguards at Smith Point and Cupsogue beaches started their shifts an hour early on Monday morning to scan the water for signs of sharks. Over the weekend, a shark bit a lifeguard who was in the water for a training exercise.

‘Tiger King’ star trafficked endangered animals, prosecutors say

"Tiger King" star Bhagavan "Doc" Antle has been charged with buying or selling endangered lemurs, cheetahs, and a chimpanzee without the proper paperwork, federal prosecutors in South Carolina said Thursday.

Rescuers save bear cub with head stuck in plastic jug in Connecticut

The misadventure happened June 23 when a mother bear with three cubs knocked over a garbage can in the town of Harwinton in Litchfield County, and one of the cubs stuck its head in a clear plastic jar that had spilled out.

Shark attack on Long Island investigated

Police in Nassau County say they are investigating a possible shark attack.

Earth’s asteroid defense may work better than previously believed, new simulation shows

Ahead of International Asteroid Day (June 30), scientists have released new simulations that show NASA’s DART asteroid defense test could work better than previously indicated.

Ancient microbial life on Earth could help us recognize life on other planets, scientists say

“Understanding how organisms here have changed with time and in different environments is going to teach us crucial things about how to search for and recognize life elsewhere,” one astrobiologist explained.

Delta allowing flight changes for free over July 4th weekend

Delta said it anticipates air travel volumes “not seen since before the pandemic” over the period of July 1 to Independence Day.

Bison gores man near Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park, officials say

It was Yellowstone’s second reported incident this year of a visitor getting too close to the animal, and the bison “responding to the perceived threat,” officials said.