The Fresno City Council approves tobacco shop regulations; there will be a changing of the guard at City Hall.

Squirrels are to blame for a house fire in Salisbury on Thursday, say investigators. At 1:07 p.m. on April 24, fire crews ...

For decades, astronomers have been searching for Earth-like planets outside our solar system. A breakthrough AI system ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

U.S. corn growth for fuel – not food occupies 29.7 million acres. A study from Arizona State University finds that corn grown ...

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Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

Lucy, an ambitious NASA mission to the outer solar system, just met its maker. The spacecraft completed a flyby of the main ...

Bright Saver, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, aims to bring the European balcony solar trend to U.S. homes with low-cost, ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...