1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (216+ words) SEBASTIAN " Residents and visitors in Sebastian will have a chance to gaze at the stars for free next week, thanks to a joint event by the city and a local astronomy group. The City of Sebastian is teaming up with…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (377+ words) Sunday's flurries are due to a strong cold front colliding with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico (NOAA) PENSACOLA " Light snow dusted parts of the Florida Panhandle on Sunday, marking a rare winter spectacle for the second year in a…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (443+ words) Artist concept of the Artemis II mission as they conduct a lunar flyby, taking astronauts farther from Earth than anyone has been in over 50 years. (NASA) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER " NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) has officially begun its slow crawl…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (279+ words) SEBASTIAN " The City of Sebastian has started its first-ever environmental poll to gather feedback from residents on important issues that will help define future efforts to make the city more sustainable. The initiative, announced this week, will help the board…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (589+ words) Grass clippings during 2025 study (Credit: ORCA) VERO BEACH " A Florida environmental group released a study showing that discarded grass clippings are a contributing factor that fuels harmful algae blooms and muck buildup in the Indian River Lagoon. The Ocean Research…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (740+ words) Anterior view of male Deinopis spinosa (Marx) showing the large posterior median eyes. (Credit: Laurel B. Lietzenmayer, University of Florida) GAINESVILLE " As Halloween nears, Florida's spiders are stepping into the spotlight, not as villains but as misunderstood heroes of the ecosystem,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (270+ words) AL94 is expected to become a tropical depression near the Bahamas in 1-2 days; interests there should monitor it. Heavy rain is likely in parts of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Turks and Caicos, and southeastern Bahamas over the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (530+ words) NASA's Perseverance rover captured this selfie, stitched together from 62 individual images, on July 23, 2024, in Mars' Jezero Crater. The arrowhead-shaped rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls," visible to the left of the rover near the image's center, contains chemical features that could indicate…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (558+ words) Tropical Storm Erin tracking (NOAA) Tropical Storm Erin is moving steadily westward across the central Atlantic Ocean and is forecast to intensify into a hurricane by Thursday night or early Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center. It's too early…...