NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. […]
Anchorage police say they have opened an investigation, after discovering two bodies at a Hillside residence, but, say that there is currently no public safety threat to the community. APD responded to a residence on the 11000-block of Hillside Drive on Sunday, after receiving a welfare check at that location. They checked the residence on […]
(Glennallen) — New regulations to increase hunting opportunity and harvest of Nelchina caribou were adopted by the Alaska Board of Game recently in response to an emergency petition filed by the Department of Fish and Game. The regulations are intended to keep the herd within management objectives and provide additional harvest opportunity. Currently the Nelchina […]
During a test dive last week, the Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) recovered the bronze bell from the I-400 – a World War II-era Imperial Japanese Navy mega-submarine, lost since 1946 when it was intentionally sunk by U.S. forces after its capture. Longer than a football field at 400 feet, the I-400 was known as […]