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It seems nothing is safe from fake news this year, not even the annual astronomical event. This year's Perseid show will be at its peak Saturday night into Sunday.

The widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is acquiring a majority ownership in The Atlantic magazine and its affiliated businesses.

CEO Sundar Pichai says that he supported the right of workers to express themselves but that a senior engineer's memo had gone too far. The memo's author says he is weighing legal action.

A crew plans to leave Nome, Alaska Thursday and sail to the North Pole. The voyage may now be possible due to sea ice melt in the Arctic caused by climate change.

Michelle Carter had been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for texts that encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself. She was sentenced to 2 1/2 years, with all but 15 months suspended.

The device isn't the first technology that can turn water vapor into drinkable liquid water. But its creators say it uses less power and works in drier conditions — the key is something called a MOF.

"It's bluer in color up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms," a Juno mission leader says of the gas giant's northern reaches.

Helicopters managed to extract 65 people from the gondolas late on Thursday — but then night fell, and the remaining trapped tourists had to wait until morning to be rescued.

Massachusetts once offered a bounty for gray seals. After conservation efforts, the New England population bounced back, and Google Earth images show more seals than scientists had previously counted.

Mexican officials say they seized a bazooka adapted to shoot drugs alongside nearly a ton of marijuana in the town of Agua Prieta on the U.S.-Mexico border.