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NASA postpones rocket launch to Moon after fuel le...
NASA on Saturday scrapped a second attempt to get its new 30-story rocket off the ground and send its uncrewed test capsule toward...
NASA Moon rocket ready for second attempt at lifto...
After technical issues halted its first launch attempt, NASA will try again on Saturday to get its new 30-story rocket off the gro...
Le Monde accused of 'censorship' for pulling op-ed...
Leading French daily Le Monde on Friday faced accusations of censorship after it deleted an opinion piece that critically analysed...
It's raining diamonds across the universe, researc...
It could be raining diamonds on planets throughout the universe, scientists suggested Friday, after using common plastic to recrea...
African countries to stand by 1.5C target at clima...
African countries on Friday agreed on a common push to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius -- a goal that scientists fear...
Webb telescope captures its first image of exoplan...
The James Webb space telescope has taken its first image of an exoplanet -- a planet outside our solar system -- as astronomers ha...
NASA readies for Saturday Moon rocket launch attem...
The stars appear to be aligned for NASA's Moon rocket to finally blast off on Saturday, with weather forecasts favorable and techn...
Africa's oldest dinosaur found in Zimbabwe
Scientists in Zimbabwe have discovered the remains of Africa's oldest dinosaur, which roamed the earth around 230 million years ag...
Villagers brave snakes and hunger to protect land...
The southern Pakistan village of Karim Bakhsh is almost entirely under muddy water after catastrophic monsoon rains -- hardly any...
Gorbachev and Reagan: a friendship that ended the...
Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 -- a bit of unaccustomed...
G20 climate talks in Indonesia end without joint c...
Group of 20 climate talks in Bali ended without a joint communique Wednesday despite host Indonesia warning the world's leading ec...
Misery mounts for millions in Pakistan's 'monsoon...
Army helicopters flew sorties over cut-off areas in Pakistan's mountainous north Wednesday and rescue parties fanned out across wa...
Lives swept away: rescued tourists recount Pakista...
It was midnight when Yasmin and her family were ordered to urgently evacuate their room at the Honeymoon Hotel, perched above the...
New launch attempt Saturday for NASA's Moon rocket
NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the w...
From Pizza Hut to the free press: Gorbachev's year...
A Soviet reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev continued to innovate after leaving the Kremlin -- as the first leader in Russia's modern his...
Webb telescope captures new detail of Phantom Gala...
The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million light-years a...
Want to save carbon and land? Study suggests woode...
Housing people in homes made from wood instead of steel and concrete could save more than 100 billion tonnes of carbon emissions w...
Japan business leader and monk Inamori dies at 90
Kazuo Inamori, a business guru and ordained Buddhist monk who reversed the fortunes of debt-ridden Japan Airlines, has died aged 9...
Relief and desperation in Pakistan's makeshift flo...
Makeshift camps have sprung up all over Pakistan -- in schools, along motorways and at military bases -- to give shelter to millio...
African nations call out climate injustice ahead o...
African countries on Monday called for an end to a "climate injustice" saying the continent causes less than four percent of globa...
Greenland already locked in to major sea level ris...
Even without any future global warming, Greenland's melting ice sheet will cause major sea level rise with potentially "ominous" i...
'Crying all the time': Monkeypox patients reveal p...
The monkeypox virus may cause intense pain but the psychological scars of the illness can be just as devastating, say sufferers an...
Tens of millions battle Pakistan floods as death t...
Tens of millions of people across swathes of Pakistan were Monday battling the worst monsoon floods in a decade, with countless ho...
NASA shoots for the Moon, on its way to Mars
NASA's most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and...
Flood fate of thousands lies with colonial-era Pak...
The fate of hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan's southern Sindh province lies with a 90-year-old barrage that directs the...
To the Moon and beyond: NASA's Artemis program
The Artemis program is NASA's plan to return humans to the Moon as a stepping stone for an eventual voyage to Mars.
UN session on high seas biodiversity ends without...
UN member states ended two weeks of negotiations Friday without a treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, an agreement th...
Dust to downpour: US weather whiplash shows climat...
A series of "once-in-a-millennium" rainstorms have lashed the United States in recent weeks, flooding areas baked dry by long-term...
US creates Arctic ambassador as Russia, China comp...
The United States said Friday it will create a position of Arctic ambassador to step up diplomacy as Russia and China increase the...
'All dead': a devastated farmer in southern China...
For almost a decade, farmer Qin Bin, 50, has toiled his plot, growing peaches and dragon fruits for sale to visiting tourists at h...
Webb telescope finds CO2 for first time in exoplan...
The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: detecting for the firs...
France's Macron announces 'new page' in Algeria ti...
French President Emmanuel Macron announced a "new page" in ties with Algeria on Thursday, the first day of a three-day visit aimed...