Mississippi State University engineers build a tool that automatically punches precise holes in irrigation polypipe, ...

Missoula, MT ( KGVO-AM News) - On January 17, 2026, a Missoula Police Department Officer responded to a call for service for ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

A recent cold front in Florida created a rare weather phenomenon known as fallstreak holes or hole punch clouds. These circular divots appear in high-altitude clouds made of super-cooled water ...

Hole punch clouds form when supercooled water droplets freeze and fall from a cloud usually after an airplane mixes the atmosphere in a cloud. Holiday weather forecast: Where travelers can expect a ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star’s violent destruction, confirms a prediction made ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

This story is part of our weekly Hidden Gems feature series as the USA TODAY Network-Florida takes readers around the state to highlight some of our most interesting attractions. FORT WHITE — Deep in ...

Efforts to limit ozone-depleting chemical compounds had a significant impact. The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest ...

A Blue Island man featured in “Loop puncher” videos that went viral on social media has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for crimes related to the attacks, Cook County court records show.