Palantir Technologies Inc. said it’s moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver at a time when more tech firms are flocking to South Florida where local officials are promoting the region as an alternative to Silicon Valley.

The relocation announcement was made Tuesday in a brief statement on the social media platform X. A spokesperson for ...Read more

NASA is looking to make sure the problems with leaks in its moon rocket have been remedied with another Artemis II test run slated for Thursday night that could set up a launch in early March.

Teams tried to run through what’s called a wet dress rehearsal on Feb. 2 but ran into familiar problems with leaks of cryogenic liquid hydrogen flowing...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Look at the armpits — or, technically, the “wingpits.”

That’s what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently as they prepared to scan the winter skies for a majestic raptor that’s especially tricky to identify: the golden eagle.

It’s easy ...Read more

Federal authorities will respond to the 300-plus-gallon sewage spill in the Potomac River, President Donald Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post where he blamed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Democrats for the spill.

“There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local ...Read more

Federal authorities will respond to the 300-plus-gallon sewage spill in the Potomac River, President Donald Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post where he blamed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Democrats for the spill.

“There is a massive Ecological Disaster unfolding in the Potomac River as a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local ...Read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and wholly owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

The entry of the two Musk companies — which he announced in early February would merge – into a new frontier of AI-enabled ...Read more

When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work, consuming the previous year’s dead plant material and other organic matter.

These soil microorganisms – Earth’s recyclers – liberate nutrients that will act as fertilizer once ...Read more

Anthropic’s talks about extending a contract with the Pentagon are being held up over additional protections the artificial intelligence company wants to put on its Claude tool, a person familiar with the matter said.

Anthropic wants to put guardrails in place to stop Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or to develop ...Read more

An estimated 7,700 gallons of jet fuel spilled into the James River on Friday afternoon near Newport News Shipbuilding, according to officials.

The spill happened during a refueling operation involving the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which is nearing completion at the shipyard, according to a release from the city of Newport News.

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Southern Californians out on Saturday night for Valentine's Day took a break from staring longingly into each other's eyes to gaze at something else: a SpaceX rocket blazing across the early evening Southern California sky.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The rocket carried 24 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s interim guidance on clean energy tax credits released Thursday offered some relief to the industry by laying out a manageable path for new projects. But, it still left investors uncertain.

The industry had been closely watching the long-awaited guidance, which spells out rules for calculating whether ...Read more

The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River.

That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak — in this case historically slow.

Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear — and in at least one way may well be unprecedented in the period of record dating to the late 19th century.

As of 7 a.m. Friday, ...Read more