Space Tourism: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin auctioning off seat on its first crewed spaceflight

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is kicking off an auction for a seat on the company’s first crew spaceflight — a short Shepard-like hop launched by a rocket named New Shepard. The Texas liftoff is targeted for July 20, the date of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth in rare nighttime splashdown

SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

Australian suburb invaded by massive flock of cockatoos

Video captured April 27 in New South Wales shows hundreds of corellas, a type of white cockatoo, descending on a sleepy residential neighborhood.

Part human, part monkey: Scientists engineer hybrid embryo in effort to grow organs

An international team of scientists said they created human-monkey embryos, or chimeras, to see if they could grow organs for people who need transplants.

Man bitten by rattlesnake after attempting to pick it up with BBQ tongs

The man tried to pick up the poisonous snake with barbecue tongs and was bit on his left hand near this thumb, according to Riverside County Animal Services.

Tree struck, shattered by lightning outside Wisconsin high school, video shows

Incredible video shows a bolt of lightning striking a tree outside of a Wisconsin high school, scorching and shattering the evergreen on impact.

NASA shares stunning image of blue dunes on Mars

NASA has released a new photograph from Mars, showing a sea of blue dunes on the Red Planet. 

Artificial intelligence, like algorithms, could crack the language of cancer and Alzheimer’s, study finds

The study found that looking at cancer and neurodegenerative diseases with artificial intelligence could lead to discovering how to alleviate symptoms - or maybe even prevent the diagnosis from happening at all.

NASA reveals Artemis program will land 1st person of color on the moon

NASA’s Artemis program, which is already set to send the first woman to the moon in 2024, will also send the first person of color to the moon.

World War II-era plane pulled from Lake Michigan goes on display

The Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless did not fly in combat because it was used on Lake Michigan as part of an incredible wartime effort to provide pilots carrier-landing training somewhere safe.

'It’s just having a blast': Black bear soaks in hot tub in the Great Smoky Mountains

Mason Trebony, who was vacationing at a cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains with his wife, filmed the bear as it crawled into the jacuzzi and plopped down to take in the morning sunrise.