May 17, 2026: International Space Station Configuration. Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon, the SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the Soyuz MS-28 crew ship, and the Progress 94 and 95 resupply ships. NASA At 6:37 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraftContinue Reading
A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft fires its Draco engines fine-tuning its automated approach and rendezvous with the International Space Station on Aug. 25, 2025. NASA Live coverage is underway for arrival of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel.Continue Reading
“I think there’s a great loss for the wrong reasons. There’s no good reason for dismantling this or tearing it down,” a former NASA chief scientist says. Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by hostContinue Reading
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Six weeks since war erupted in the Middle East, the shockwaves have spread to the Caribbean region, already pushed to the brink, amid fears of a looming El Niño-linked climate disaster.Continue Reading
More than 60 years after the UN launched its formal decolonization drive, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged renewed commitment to completing the unfinished business of ending colonial rule.Continue Reading
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic “ape-to-human” progression and paints human evolution as a crowded, branching tree with multiple species coexisting. Scientists dated the fossils usingContinue Reading
An analysis of oil export data offers clues about which nations have benefited from higher prices, and which have lost a lot of revenue.Continue Reading
With a wildfire season that runs from March to May, fewer acres have burned than usual. But with fewer prescribed burns to thin combustible underbrush, severe fire remains a possibility. By Anna Mattson The New Jersey Forest Fire Service this month announced an elevated risk for fire spread across DelawareContinue Reading
Federal authorities charged a Daly City man in an international trafficking plot to smuggle nearly 300 poached loggerhead musk turtles from Florida to Taiwan.Continue Reading
Six-time Trinidad and Tobago archery champion, Anthurium Lewis, has told UN News how sport helped her overcome age barriers in environmental advocacy and how in the future it can contribute to reaching globally agreed poverty and sustainability goals.Continue Reading
Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, overturning a long-standing belief that fossilization destroys all organic material. In a remarkably well-preserved Edmontosaurus fossil from South Dakota, researchers detected remnants of collagen — the main protein found in bone — using advancedContinue Reading
After The Traitor stopped funding the WHO, the agency retreated from occupational safety and health programs, putting millions of workers at risk as the planet warms, advocates contend. They hope its leaders change that when they meet next week. By Liza Gross Every year, hundreds of millions of people aroundContinue Reading