NASA’s Orion capsule has reached 432,000 kilometres from earth, the longest distance ever travelled by a spacecraft made for human passengers.
A COVID-19 testing lab in England misreported about 39,000 tests as negative when they should have been positive last year, UK authorities say.
There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. public health agency said on Wednesday.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. health official celebrated and vilified as the face of the country’s COVID-19 pandemic response, used his final White House briefing on Tuesday to denounce division and promote vaccines.
NASA’s Orion has reached the moon, with the capsule set to spend close to a week in lunar orbit before heading home.
Businesses in Beijing have shut and schools have shifted classes online as the Chinese capital fights a rise in COVID-19 case numbers.
How do you stop a cow from burping? It might sound like the start of a humorous riddle, but it’s the subject of a huge scientific inquiry in New Zealand. And the answer could have profound effects on the health of the planet.
NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard early Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years ago.
