WASHINGTON — The ozone hole over Antarctica shrank to its smallest peak since 1988, NASA said Thursday.
The huge hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer reached its maximum this year in September, and this year NASA said it was 7.6 million square miles wide (19.6 million square kilometers). The hole...
The U.S military sent one of its deadliest warplanes capable of launching nuclear-armed cruise missiles soaring across the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to the region later this week and a day after Defense Secretary James Mattis warned that North Korea was “accelerating”...
Traveling between the stars has been a dream of humanity for generations. But while our species might not be able to make that trek for a long while, there are some seasoned travelers whizzing around the galaxy, and one of them stopped by our solar system this week.
Astronomer Rob...
The US economy expanded at an annual pace of 3% during the three months to the end of September, which was stronger than expected.
The growth extended the robust activity reported in the previous quarter, when US GDP grew at an annual pace of 3.1%.
Analysts had been expecting a sharp...
Amazon.com Inc. is almost certain to enter the business of selling prescription drugs by 2019, said two analysts at Leerink Partners, posing a direct threat to the U.S.’s biggest brick-and-mortar drugstore chains.
“It’s a matter of when, not if,” Leerink Partners analyst David Larsen said in a report to clients...
DETROIT - Major automakers on Tuesday posted higher U.S. new vehicle sales in September as consumers in hurricane-hit parts of the country replaced flood-damaged cars, extending a rally in their shares that began when Hurricane Harvey hit southeast Texas in late August.
Analysts and industry consultants had predicted hurricanes Harvey...
After nearly a century of building vehicles powered by fossil fuels, General Motors — one of the world’s largest automakers — announced Monday that the end of GM producing internal combustion engines is fast approaching.
The acceleration to an all-electric future will begin almost immediately, with GM releasing two new...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy expanded a bit faster than previously estimated in the second quarter, recording its quickest rate of growth in more than two years, but the momentum likely slowed in the third quarter due to the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Gross domestic product increased at...
U.S. consumer confidence eased in September from the second-highest level since late 2000 as attitudes deteriorated in states affected by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, according to figures Tuesday from the New York-based Conference Board.
HIGHLIGHTS OF CONSUMER CONFIDENCE (SEPTEMBER)
Confidence index cooled to 119.8 (est. 120) from a downwardly revised...
