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As scientists, we love the adventures often involved in scientific discovery. Recently, we had the chance to visit one of the most beautiful places in the California Desert as part of a new project.

Here’s a list of girls basketball players to watch across the High Desert this season, broken down by league. Excelsior — ...

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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo went supersonic over the Mojave desert during its first powered flight this morning, a major milestone for the company’s plans for commercial suborbital flights. Sir ...

Eighty-seven athletes have been placed on the 2025 Daily Press Fan’s Choice Preseason Basketball Player of the Year ballots.

He finally went up — just like the self-taught rocket man always pledged he would. He came back down in one piece too — a little dinged up and his steam-powered vessel a little cracked up. Still, ...

Mojave’s boys volleyball team promised itself it wouldn’t again experience the disappointment it felt last season when it lost to Sky Pointe in the Class 3A state championship. Promise fulfilled. The ...

MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic looks poised to begin launching paying passengers into space by 2014, but the private spaceship company is going needs more folks with the "right stuff" to make it ...

A combined 98 athletes have been placed on the 2025 Daily Press Fans’ Choice Preseason Soccer Player of the Year ballots. Our polls this year are broken up by including soccer players from all four ...