“If you're flying rockets in space, and you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong,” said the researcher who led the mission.

Lizzy Hahn, the student journalist who broke the viral story, says the incident is shaping culture and policy around the use of AI on campus.

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active as far back as 40,000 years ago.

Scientists say a warning system could have given people on the Alaska Peninsula 10 seconds or more to brace themselves for July’s M7.3 earthquake.

The herds are growing, but there are looming disagreements about future hunts, and about what should happen if the reintroduction conflicts with oil, gas and mining interests.

Alaska's top aerospace official says that means huge opportunities could come for the state’s two rocket launch sites on Kodiak Island and near Fairbanks.

The global space-launch industry is welcoming the prospect of launching rockets from Alaska’s two spaceports to relieve the backlog at larger facilities in the Lower 48. Top officials with Alaska’s two civilian launch facilities say their new partnership also will promote development of Alaska’s space-launch industry.

Officials with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute and Alaska Aerospace Corporation announced a wide-ranging agreement Tuesday to tap into the growing market for rocket launches from the state’s two launch facilities.

Wildlife managers, scientists and students are raising the alarm over the potential loss of Alaska’s cooperative fish and wildlife research unit.

The company’s goal is in line with President Trump’s attempt to bring manufacturing back to America. But the White House is also freezing and cutting federal grants that have been key for the company to ramp up production.