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February is Black History Month, a time to honor the important role African Americans play in the story of our country.

Virginia Oliver, the “Lobster Lady” of Maine who became a legend while tending traps for nearly a century has died at 105. Oliver raised four children before joining her fisherman husband Bill and ...

We hope you enjoyed this look back at the last 100 years of television in science. From the early days of physicists ...

Daniel Apai is a professor of astronomy, planetary sciences and optical science at the University of Arizona. He receives funding from NASA. Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very ...

“PBS News Weekend” will sign off for good on Sunday after federal budget cuts forced the broadcaster to “rework” its staffing and programming. “PBS News Hour” anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Yang (Photo credit: PBS News/YouTube) “PBS News Weekend” will sign off for good on Sunday after federal budget cuts forced ...

Local PBS stations in California had already made staff and budget cuts in anticipation of the funding loss. Rural and small-town public media stations were especially hard hit by the federal cuts.

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...

The Lazuli Space Observatory from Schmidt Sciences will be larger than Hubble. The Lazuli Space Observatory from Schmidt Sciences will be larger than Hubble. is a news writer covering all things ...

The closure of the nonprofit responsible for funding public media organizations such as PBS and NPR has left some wondering how local stations, like GBH and WBUR in Massachusetts, might be affected.