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BRONX : Johnsonburg native Michael Hinman is in the newspaper business in New York City. He’s editor of the Pulitzer Prize winning Riverdale Press, to...

GEMINID: The famous winter meteor shower will sling bright shooting stars across the sky this week, peaking Thursday night into Friday morning, accord...

PROPOSAL: One French agency believes that by the year 2022, it will be able to fly a couple around the moon to celebrate their engagement — for a cost...

TRANSPORTATION: It’s hard to picture here in rural Pennsylvania, but electric vehicles are gaining popularity. A recent survey by AAA indicated that 2...

SPACE: NASA is preparing a mission to search for habitable planets elsewhere in space. On April 16, the agency will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Su...

EXPLORER I: “Late in the evening of Jan. 31, 1958, the United States took its first step into space with the launch of the Explorer 1 satellite from C...

YEAR’S END: With this year coming to an end, agencies and organizations are taking stock of what happened in 2017. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful recentl...

CASE KNIVES: Kenneth Doutt of Smethport passed along an article, “History of Case Knives” by Jason Houser, that mentioned the Bradford-based knife com...

PERSPECTIVE: “You can’t look at the Earth and not be changed,” said NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik. “You realize every experience you’ve ever had and ev...

ECLIPSE STORIES: It’s one of those events that come on rare occasion that brings the nation together to enjoy one beautiful thing. The solar eclipse o...

THE MOON & PA: Nationaldaycalendar.com has declared today to be National Pennsylvania Day. In celebration of Independence Day this year, the website i...

DONALD COMES: It is with a heavy heart that we report RTS contributor and local horticulturalist Donald Comes passed away. (Read his obituary on page ...

WASHINGTON — From Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen” to Donald Trump’s “Detroit single mom,” the unmarried mother remains a constant fascination to Repub...

PLANET 9: NASA is inviting the public to “help scan the realm beyond Neptune for brown dwarfs and planet nine” in a new online project. According to N...

REMEMBRANCE: Today is the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Seven people died on Feb. 1, 2003, when the orbiter broke up during re-e...

SPACE: If you’re interested in the exploration of the universe, NASA recently announced that the agency is sharing images from their research to view ...

ORION TESTING: A test campaign for the Orion spacecraft — a vessel built to take humans farther into the solar system than we’ve ever traveled — will ...