A “staycation” is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a vacation spent at home or nearby.” Unique opportunities are ...

See 10 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

King tides bring unusually high water levels, and they can cause local tidal flooding. Over time, sea-level rise is raising ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Earth will soon have a visitor — and not of the extraterrestrial kind. Astronomers found a small asteroid that will orbit our planet this fall, becoming a "mini-moon" temporarily.

In recent years, a record number of immigrants have entered the U.S. and sought asylum. Instead of relief, they're met with a ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

As the sun set over Connecticut River’s west bank last week while a nearly full moon rose to the east, dozens of kayakers, ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 is about the size of a bus, standing at around 33 feet long, and researchers predict it will make a ...

Intuitive Machines secures $4.82B NASA contract, establishing itself as a major player in the space exploration market ...

The September 2024 full moon was a pretty big deal. In addition to being the full moon, traditionally called the Harvest Moon, it also was a supermoon and it was slightly darkened by virtue of it ...