The flight, named the Perseverance Flight, was designed to offer families a unique cosmic tribute, sending cremated remains and DNA samples into low Earth orbit.

Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before. Decades of scientific research has ...

After launch, the capsule entered Earth’s orbit and completed two rounds. All instruments worked fine, but contact was lost just minutes before its re-entry into the atmosphere ...

Avila Beach remains one of California’s best-kept coastal secrets, a charming enclave along the Central Coast where life moves at a pace dictated by tides rather than traffic lights.

The U.S. Coast Guard's elite surfmen are trusted to drive lifeboats on the most challenging rescue missions. They train in ...

The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and China. To that end, the Navy plans to increase training across the vast ...

That’s the everyday reality at Lincoln City Outlets, where bargain hunting meets beachside bliss in one of Oregon’s most ...

Herbert was haunted by the specter of unstoppable dunes. In Dune, he imagined a desert that swallowed an entire planet—an ...

After years of tagging, monitoring, and studying the habits of great white sharks, researchers at Stanford University’s ...

Sophie Elmhirst’s “A Marriage at Sea” chronicles the doomed aquatic adventure of a British husband and wife in 1972.

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

The Bailey Pointe Assisted Living Facility is adorned with U.S. flags up and down its sidewalks for the Fourth of July. On ...