The 87-year-old Petty, who won a record 200 races, remains an ambassador at Legacy Motor Club. Earnhardt died during a last-lap crash at the 2001 Daytona 500, creating a pivotal move toward better ...

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Heavy Sierra snow and scattered Valley downpours will continue Thursday night as a storm fueled by moisture from an atmopsheric river moves over Northern California.

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A huge detector in the Mediterranean Sea spotted the most energetic neutrino from space to date. The particle could shed light on the universe’s most extreme phenomena.

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Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...