Johnston Atoll, an unincorporated US territory and Pacific island wildlife refuge with a complicated military history, is no ...

The military had been looking at a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean as a location to land cargo-carrying rockets.

Nature lovers who enjoy watching wildlife will love this historic national wildlife refuge in Florida, famous for brown pelicans and beautiful trails.

Red-footed boobies and great frigatebirds fly above Johnston Island, within the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, in 2019. (Ryan Rash/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Reuters) ...

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.

A great frigatebird chick scolds neighboring seabirds as they fly past its nest on Johnston Island, within the Johnston Atoll ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed suit against U.S. government agencies for failing to release public records on plans to land rockets at Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

The test program calls for up to 10 reentry vehicle landings per year over four consecutive years at a site to be constructed in the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, which is within the ...

The Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and the surrounding Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument protect vital nesting habitat for seabirds, shallow coral reefs and marine habitat for ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air Force has suspended plans it had proposed with Elon Musk's SpaceX to test hypersonic ...

Landing tests at Johnston Atoll in the Pacific could advance a plan to use rockets to ship military cargo but could also threaten an important nesting site.