Former Knoxville Mayor Randy Tyree, who led during the 1982 World's Fair and ran for Tennessee Governor, has died. More Than 200 Arrests in Sweeping Bar Raid Kaine plans to move war powers resolution ...

“Oh, baby, I’m gonna love you forever/ Forever and ever, amen” – as sung by Randy Travis. When I was a second-grader, I was fascinated by the short-lived ABC sitcom “The Second Hundred Years.” In the ...

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...

Right now one of the most advanced planetary explorers ever built is scouring the surface of Mars. Supported by a team of hundreds of scientists back on Earth, the Perseverance rover has traveled ...

Don’t hate me because I’m stationary. Yes, the Tyrees are anticipating another laid-back, close-to-home Thanksgiving. Some would envy our “sweet spot,” but it’s more of a bittersweet spot. Our parents ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified an exotic rock on Mars that may be an iron-nickel meteorite, according to scientists on the mission team. The oddly sculpted rock, nicknamed Phippsaksla, ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...

Blue Origin Thursday launched its massive New Glenn rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, carrying small twin spacecraft toward Mars as part of NASA’s Escapade mission. It was Blue Origin’s first NASA ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mission NG-2 successfully launched a second mission from Cape Canaveral Thursday, carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. The huge 321-foot (98-meter) New Glenn ...

Mars is cold, parched, and extremely dusty. Powerful gusts of wind kick up literal tons of reddish dust that often takes the form of whorls known as dust devils. These winds also shroud the planet in ...

Blue Origin successfully launched—and partially landed—its New Glenn rocket on Thursday. The achievement marks a major step forward in the company’s bid to rival SpaceX as a reliable provider of ...

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA Mars mission on the second flight of its New Glenn booster Nov. 13, landing the vehicle’s first stage in the process. New Glenn lifted off on the ...