Hawaii conservation groups are voicing their opposition to plans by the U.S. Space Force to conduct cargo rocket testing at Johnston Atoll, a national wildlife refuge in the Pacific. The atoll, known ...

Many different species of birds occupy Johnston Atoll — part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. Pictured is a masked booby and chick. “Landing massive rockets in one of the most ...

WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll, according to a report this week in ...

The U.S. Air Force has halted plans to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll using Elon Musk’s SpaceX, a U.S. military publication has reported. The decision was made ...

The U.S. military is considering Johnston Atoll, a remote Pacific island chain that serves as an important refuge for dozens of seabird species, for "two commercial rocket landing pads" to test giant ...

The idea is to launch rockets to carry big cargo loads around the world from the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A rocket’s red glare could soon light up the nation’s most unusual wildlife refuge ...

Johnston is home to the state's only landfill, the Central Landfill, where thousands of tons of trash a year are spread out, ...

The military had been looking at a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean as a location to land cargo-carrying rockets. The Air Force has stopped evaluating a unique wildlife refuge in the Pacific Ocean ...

HONOLULU — Scientists made new discoveries while recently diving to deep coral reefs in the remote atolls of northwest Hawaii. The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument says a research expedition ...