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NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock. It’s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because there’s less gravity on the moon, time there moves a tad quicker — 58.7 microseconds every day …

Skygazers in California were left stunned early Tuesday when they witnessed a series of bright fiery lights streaking across the clear night sky. Video shows the mysterious golden objects shooting across the sky in a straight line at around 1:30 a.m. in Moreno Valley,which is about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. “What the hell!,” one puzzled onlooker in the …

Several inmates at a New York state prison are suing the corrections department over its decision to lock down correctional facilities during next week’s total solar eclipse, saying it infringes on their right to practice their faith. The lawsuit was filed in federal court by six inmates incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, located about 110 miles north …

Two people out walking were seriously injured Monday morning when a small private plane hit them after crashing into a walking path near the Delaware County Regional Airport in Muncie, Indiana, according to airport officials. During a press conference, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Department said that just before 10:30 a.m., two of the victims were out walking a trail located …

Maine’s largest airport has a new “destination” to offer its travelers: the moon. The Portland International Jetport is now home to the second-largest piece of the moon on Earth. The piece is part of a new exhibit titled “Fly Me to the Moon,” which opened to the public on March 26. FOR SOLAR ECLIPSE ON APRIL 8, SOME US SCHOOLS …

The mother of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, whom police found dead in his truck earlier this month after he had missed a deposition in connection with his lawsuit against the jet manufacturer, is putting some of the blame on the aerospace giant as police continue to investigate his apparent suicide. Barnett was suing Boeing, claiming that he had been retaliated …

There’s this new aircraft called the WindRunner, and it’s not just any plane. Imagine something so big it was specifically made to haul the massive turbines that are the backbone of onshore wind energy. The WindRunner can carry cargo that just can’t fit on the road and can go places that are a bit on the rough side as far …

At least six people on a United Airlines flight bound for New Jersey were hospitalized when the plane was diverted Friday to an upstate New York airport because of high winds and a sick passenger, officials said. United Airlines flight 85 landed safely at New York Stewart International Airport in New Windsor around 6:45 p.m. after high winds were reported …

NASA plans to launch three research rockets to analyze a rare space marvel that could collect crucial information. The Atmospheric Perturbations around Eclipse Path (APEP) rockets will launch April 8 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to study how the total solar eclipse impacts the Earth’s upper atmosphere,NASA announced Monday. After next month’s, there won’t be another total solar …

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. …