President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed the Democrats' massive climate, health and tax bill into law, marking a major accomplishment for his domestic agenda less than three months before midterm elections. Speaking from the White House's State Dining Room, Biden touted the Inflation Reduction Act as "further proof that the soul of America is vibrant, the future of America is bright and the promise of America is real and just beginning." Taking advantage of some political momentum, Biden interrupted his summer vacation for the signing just days after the House approved the measure, following Senate passage by just one vote…

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly come under legal and financial scrutiny over the years -- only to eventually escape accountability.But as Trump family biographer Gwenda Blair writes in an essay for Politico, he will likely not be as lucky when it comes to evading legal consequences for ...
Tiny crystals of zircon could be geological evidence that the continents were born at meteor impact sites.

New research suggests the seven continents were created by giant meteorite impacts—similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. They happened more than three-and-a-half billion years ago, before life on Earth began— so the discovery sheds fresh light on evolution. Scientists analyzed a mineral called zircon, the microscopic grains of which act like a ‘geological […]
NASA's Space Launch System moon rocket emerged from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center around 10 p.m. EDT Tuesday (0200 GMT Wednesday) for an overnight ride to launch pad 39B. The more than 30-story-tall moon rocket is set for launch Aug. 29 on its inaugural test flight carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft around the moon.

NASA plans to begin moving the first Space Launch System moon rocket to its launch pad in Florida Tuesday night after completing tests of the rocket's flight termination system and winning an extension from range safety officials to certify the destruct mechanism's batteries throughout the mission's upcoming launch period.
Another batch of 46 Starlink internet satellites soared into space Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California occurred at 2:40 p.m. PDT (5:40 p.m. EDT; 2140 GMT). The Falcon 9's reusable first stage landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and 52 more Starlink internet satellites Tuesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The commercial mission took off bound for low Earth orbit at 10:14 p.m. EDT (0214 GMT), and the Falcon 9's reusable first stage landed on an offshore drone ship. The launch team bypassed a launch opportunity earlier Tuesday evening due to unfavorable upper level winds.

SpaceX continues to launch Falcon 9 rockets from Launch Complex 39A in Florida as construction work advances on the nearby tower for the company's next-generation Starship rocket. Overnight Tuesday, SpaceX rolled another Falcon 9 to pad 39A for liftoff with the next batch of Starlink internet satellites, just hours after another section of the Starship gantry tower arrived at the pad.