Liftoff of STS-2 as Columbia returns to space. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Following a launch scrub a week earlier, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies on Nov. 12, 1981, for its second trip into ...

All of Jamaica’s financial defenses — insurance, bonds and credit lines — could be deployed to recover from Hurricane Melissa. Will it be enough? By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega and David C. Adams Emiliano ...

This year’s extreme weather disasters have wreaked so much destruction that they collectively eclipse the annual GDP of more than 100 countries and come close to New York City’s massive budget, the ...

Hours after an Atlantic hurricane came for Appalachia, many residents of rolling, tree-lined western Asheville, North Carolina, had nothing to do and nowhere to go. More than 1,000 roads were closed, ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last month, when Jimmy Kimmel was briefly taken off ABC as punishment for comments he’d made on air about Charlie Kirk, the ...

(AP) - When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky. She was even more surprised to see what actually ...

LOWELL — NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would ...

New images of Earth's surface were captured by the NISAR satellite, marking a milestone in a joint space mission between India and the United States. The images depict portions of Maine and North ...

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