Two UNLV scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
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A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century.
The U.S. will ban the use of the Chinese app WeChat on Sunday, citing national security concerns.
It’s months away from completion, but the entrepreneur who brought us Tesla and SpaceX in addition to The Boring Co. tunnel transit project wants to move people quickly.
A Las Vegas paleontologist is still studying the specimens to confirm that his suspicion is true — that the fossils are from the extinct Ice Age helmeted musk ox.
He was in NASA’s fifth astronaut class, chosen in 1966, retired from NASA in 1975 and went to work for a few aerospace companies.
Sofia Ongele created ReDawn, an app that allows survivors of sexual assault to chat with an artificial intelligence-driven bot that can locate nearby help centers and create reports and ask questions.
The earthquakes that hammered the Southern California desert near the town of Ridgecrest last summer involved ruptures on a web of interconnected faults and increased strain on a major nearby fault that has begun to slowly move, according to a new study.
As hotel-casinos along the Las Vegas Strip work to broaden nongaming offerings, many are looking to excite guests with glimpses into the future.
William Corney was a communications engineer stationed in the middle of the Atlantic during the Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago, relaying messages to NASA’s Mission Control.
The top Senate Democrat is calling on the FBI to review a Russian company’s trendy smartphone app that transforms faces from photos into younger and older images of the person, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Las Vegas has the second hardest drinking water in the nation, according to new rankings from a group that sells water softeners.
Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.
Apple has unveiled a new iPad that’s thinner and slightly larger than its current entry-level tablet.