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A company with offices in Florida is receiving $97 million to land science on the moon. NASA awarded contracts to three companies as the agency renews its focus on lunar exploration.

The administration's proposed adjustment to the wage index, a key factor used to set hospitals' Medicare payments, could help rural facilities while hurting those in cities.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, about the investigation he is overseeing into Missouri's only abortion clinic.

Residents are back home after a fast-moving wildfire in the Ocala National Forest forced them to evacuate Wednesday. As of 6 a.m, the fire had been reduced to about 500 acres.

Former U.S. Senator and astronaut Bill Nelson is joining NASA's Advisory Council, where he will advise on all major program and policy issues before the agency.

Across the West, hundreds of communities are vulnerable to wildfires. But wildfire and recovery experts warn that the impulse to re-create what was there before disaster is misguided and dangerous.

Nitrous oxide is making a comeback for pain relief during childbirth. But charges for the option vary from free at some hospitals to thousands of dollars at others.

NPR's Noel King talks to Belinda De Lucy of the Brexit Party and a newly elected member of the European Parliament, and to John Peet, the Brexit editor at The Economist magazine, about the election.

Steve Inskeep talks to Fire Chief Jeffrey Payne in Dayton, Ohio, about the damage to the city, and efforts to keep residents safe. So far there have been no fatalities and only minimal injuries.

The 2018 Camp Fire destroyed 90% of the town of Paradise, Calif., and killed 85 people. Should the federal government jump in to rebuild communities at high risk of future disasters?