While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

In this image taken from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday ... shows the newly-discovered comet SWAN on April 6, 2025.

Comet the marsh tacky horse spent his last 11 years as a living history exhibit at the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island. Courtesy of Laura Badger Comet was supposed to be common, but ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The House passed a budget bill proposing federal spending cuts, tax cuts, and increased funding in certain areas. The bill includes a proposal to eliminate federal income tax on overtime pay.

BATON ROUGE — LSU football is growing its list of players selected in the 2025 NFL Draft this weekend in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In the leadup to the three-day event, there were as many as eight ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the solar system that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. The Mercury-sized planet ...

LSU football defensive lineman Sai'vion Jones has come off the 2025 NFL Draft board after being drafted by the Denver Broncos. The Broncos picked Jones with the No. 101 overall pick in the third ...

A federal judge on April 25 said he strongly suspects that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras "with no meaningful process." The child was born in Baton Rouge ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic ...