4+ hour, 45+ min ago  (209+ words) March 4 (UPI) -- Workers at a library in England got a "huge surprise" when a pair of books that were 50 years overdue turned up at a thrift store about 60 miles away. The Leeds City Council said in a news release that…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago  (209+ words) March 4 (UPI) -- Workers at a library in England got a "huge surprise" when a pair of books that were 50 years overdue turned up at a thrift store about 60 miles away. The Leeds City Council said in a news release that…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (116+ words) Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted again this week, sending lava more than 800 feet into the air during a roughly 10-hour eruption, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The eruption marked the 40th episode in a series of periodic activity that…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (245+ words) It was a busy year in Yellowstone National Park, with 2025 featuring 1,136 earthquakes, the formation of new geological features and millions of visitors -- some of whom left without their hats. Geologists and park scientists juggle a wide range of responsibilities, including…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (554+ words) Dec. 16 (UPI) -- More than 16,600 footprints left by carnivorous dinosaurs of different sizes that walked, ran and even swam about 66 million years ago have been identified at the Carreras Pampa site inside Torotoro National Park in central Bolivia, making the country…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (378+ words) Sept. 30 (UPI) -- More than 50 people are dead after a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Tuesday night, causing power outages and triggering a state of emergency. The earthquake occurred northeast of the coast from Bogo, a costal city…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (290+ words) Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Seattle-based natural resources firm Interlune will build a Texas facility to develop and test imitation moon dirt near NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The imitation moon dirt will support the development and testing of technologies and equipment…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (308+ words) Aug. 20 (UPI) -- NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket mission to study the turbulence where Earth's atmosphere ends and outer space begins sometime over the next two weeks. The earliest the agency expects to launch the three sounding rockets is…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago  (172+ words) A 17-year-old was taken to a hospital after burning his foot in a thermal area in Yellowstone National Park on Monday. "The juvenile was on a hike in the thermal area when his foot broke through the thin crust and…...

7+ mon, 6+ day ago  (262+ words) July 28 (UPI) -- NASA and India plan to deploy a satellite that will map the Earth down to a centimeter after a launch on Wednesday from the Asian nation's southeastern coast. The rocket launch by the Indian Space Research Organization is…...