WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double…

NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off on a quest to find planets around other stars and explore the hidden universe. SpaceX launched the $4 billion Roman Space Telescope on Sunday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Roman blazed toward an observation point 1 million miles away that’s home to the Webb Space Telescope, one of NASA’s other crown jewels in the sky. Roman will take three months to reach its destination. Once there, it will survey the cosmos like never before. The telescope is named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer.

TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska (AP) — With no tall trees reaching to the sky, Alaska's North Slope tundra can look desolate — especially to outsiders fro…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Now it’s the moon’s turn to pull a disappearing act.