UPDATE: Uncle Nearest, through CEO Fawn Weaver's attorneys, is appealing the judge's order dismissing the bankruptcy petition Weaver filed on behalf of the company. As of the afternoon of March 20, no ...

These are the words a court-appointed receiver recently used to describe Uncle Nearest, the Tennessee whiskey brand that honors the enslaved man who taught Jack Daniel how to distill. Once reportedly ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, marking a key moment in the journey of one of the rarest visitors ever observed in our solar system. Discovered ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as ...

Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...

Intuitively, one would argue that Nepal and China are home to the closest place to space on Earth: Mount Everest, towering above at 8,848 meters or 29,032 feet above sea level. However, the answer is ...

Space officially begins about 100 km above the Earth’s surface, a boundary known as the Kármán line. But Earth isn’t a perfect sphere — it’s slightly flattened at the poles and bulged at the equator.

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

Rhode Island is the only state in New England without a Costco warehouse. Neighboring states Connecticut and Massachusetts have eight and seven locations, respectively. Plans to build a Costco in ...

Consultants to assess the company’s outside assets for possible liquidation. The lawsuit against Uncle Nearest is moving toward a possible bankruptcy. Court filings show that Phillip G. Young Jr. has ...

The closest mountains include those in Franconia Notch and Waterville Valley. Mount Liberty and Flume take just 2 hours and 2 minutes from Boston. Mount Cabot is the furthest north 4,000-footer. Every ...