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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the combination of the Chang'e-7 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y14 carrier rocket is transferred vertically to the launching area at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in southern China's Hainan Province on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026 . (Yang GuanyuXinhua via AP)

China abruptly postpones ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission launch

9:39 AM on Sunday, August 23

China has postponed its planned ambitious Chang’e-7 lunar mission

FILE - A man views the lunar eclipse, Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in South Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Near-total lunar eclipse is coming up with the Americas in prime position

8:01 AM on Saturday, August 22

It's the moon's turn to pull a disappearing act

On-site caretaker Jodi Kleier hands a piece of banana to a gibbon at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita, Calif., Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

How a sanctuary outside LA has cared for rare, endangered gibbons for a half-century

12:01 AM on Saturday, August 22

Over the past 50 years, the Gibbon Conservation Center has become a globally recognized institution dedicated to the care and well-being of gibbons

The Colorado River flows beneath the Glen Canyon Dam at the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, near Page, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Federal officials announce water cuts as Colorado River supplies continue to plunge

8:00 PM on Friday, August 21

Federal officials have announced sharp water cuts for the next two years for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River

A marmot named 9 sits outside of her den Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Gothic, Colo. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson)

Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents

9:00 AM on Friday, August 21

Fat Marmot Week is coming soon

Antarctic krill fishing is now concentrated in the exact pattern conservation rules were designed to prevent

8:35 AM on Friday, August 21

FILE - The Harvard Medical School is seen Aug. 18, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Harvard agrees to $53 million settlement over body parts stolen and sold by former morgue manager

6:20 PM on Thursday, August 20

Harvard University Medical School has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class action lawsuit over its former morgue manager’s illegal sale of human remains

FILE - The glacial ice avalanche of the Trift Glacier above the village in Saas-Grund, Valais, Switzerland, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017. (Dominic Steinmann/Keystone via AP, File)

Bodies of 2 hikers missing for decades in Swiss Alps turn up as glacier melts

5:02 AM on Thursday, August 20

Officials say the bodies of two Belgian mountaineers missing for over three decades in the Swiss Alps have been found

Truckload of squid spills into the street in Rhode Island, creating a smelly mess in the summer heat

5:40 PM on Wednesday, August 19

A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows Kieran Wilson, LINK's principal investigator, and Hunter Robertson, a space systems engineer, both at Katalyst Space, standing next to their spacecraft inside the SES (Space Environment Simulator) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., April 17, 2026, ahead of thermal vacuum testing. (Sophia Roberts/NASA via AP, File)

Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope

3:07 PM on Wednesday, August 19

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway participate in an interview while aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (NASA via AP)

What beats seeing eclipses from space? Try the northern and southern lights

1:47 PM on Wednesday, August 19

Eclipses may be wondrous, but nothing beats seeing the northern and southern lights from space

Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, speaks during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump picks Dr. Heidi Overton, a top White House aide, to lead the Food and Drug Administration

12:31 PM on Wednesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has picked Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration

This photo made with a long exposure and released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Nov. 10, 2025, shows four lasers at ESO's Paranal Observatory, each one launched from one of the four eight-meter telescopes on site in Taltal, Chile. (A. Berdeu/European Southern Observatory via AP)

Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole

11:00 AM on Wednesday, August 19

A telescope has spotted the fastest known star in the Milky Way

Houston Humane Society volunteers Dawn York, left, and Kent Williamson, right, walk Graphite and Shadow at the Humane Society in Houston, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)

Concerns about the New World screwworm have put Texas pet adoptions on hold

9:01 AM on Wednesday, August 19

The first New World screwworm outbreak in Texas in 60 years is hindering efforts to move rescued dogs and cats out of crowded animal shelters to states where they would be adopted

An employee cleans a display at the Jellyfish Museum, a facility that is home to about 20 unique species of jellyfish found in Florida and other parts of the world, Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, in Pompano Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Florida's Jellyfish Museum is dedicated solely to the mesmerizing floating predators

12:06 AM on Wednesday, August 19

Floating tentacled predators pulse and swirl in hypnotic patterns in the dark museum space, lit primarily by images projected on walls and the light from the saltwater tanks

This combo made with photos provided by NASA on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows before, left, and after images of a fresh crater on the moon created by a collision with a SpaceX rocket. (NASA via AP)

Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon

5:38 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket

An archaeologist holds up a ceramic snake head that he unearthed while excavating skeletal remains at the Huaca Pucllana archaeological site in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. The findings are from the Lima culture, according to the excavation's leader Gladys Paz. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Archaeologists unveil skeletal remains believed to be ritual offering in Peru

5:11 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled skeletal remains near Huaca Pucllana, an ancient pyramid in Lima

The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. Credit: Save LBI (generated with AI tools).

8:05 AM on Tuesday, August 18

FILE - A sign marks the entrance to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work

6:34 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them

Guinea pigs nibble on corn and other vegetation at a guinea pig rescue in Salisbury, Mass., Friday, July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi)

How this Massachusetts sanctuary takes in hundreds of guinea pigs from across the US

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Kimie Smothermon runs the Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, Massachusetts, caring for nearly 400 guinea pigs

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