French prosecutors seek charges against Elon Musk and X over child sexual abuse images.

French prosecutors are seeking charges against Elon Musk and his social platform X for child sexual abuse images on the platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by the platform’s artificial intelligence system, Grok. The Paris pub…

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NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts saw flashes on the far side of the moon that cameras struggle to capture.

The Artemis 2 astronauts remained vigilant while zipping around the far side of the moon last month, on the ready to record meteoroid impact flashes on the lunar landscape. Their diligence was rewarded. The four crewmembers reported seeing several impact flashes — flickers o…

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Israel built and defended a secret Iran War Base in Iraq.

Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and launched airstrikes against Iraqi troops who almost discovered it early in the war, people familiar with the matter including U.S. officials said. Israel built the i…

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Scientists found 10,000 possible exoplanets hiding in NASA data.

Using NASA data and machine learning, scientists have found over 10,000 possible new planets in a single survey. In a new study, researchers used machine learning to perform a sweeping survey of data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TE…

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SpaceX just fired up its 33-engine Starship 'V3' Super Heavy rocket booster.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket may indeed get off the ground next week. The company is apparently targeting May 15 for the test flight, which will be the 12th for Starship overall but the first for the new, more powerful "Version 3" of the giant vehicle. SpaceX cl…

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Most Americans say Trump is mentally, physically unfit to serve effectively.

A new poll found that most Americans say they believe President Trump is mentally and physically unfit to serve as commander in chief.  The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll found that 59 percent of U.S. respondents said that Trump does not have the mental sharpness it tak…

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Astronomers find atmosphere around a solar system object that shouldn’t have one.

Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the first time — an object previously thought to be too small to support the presence of an atmosphere. Thousands of frozen, rocky bodies called trans-Neptunian objects, or…

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Reuters wins two Pulitzer Prizes for national and beat reporting.

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes ​on Monday, one for national reporting for stories on U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign of political retribution, and a second for beat reporting for investigations revealing how social-media behemoth Meta (META.O), opens new tab kno…

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Europe's powerful Ariane 6 rocket launches 32 Amazon internet satellites to orbit.

Europe's most powerful rocket roared into action early Thursday morning (April 30). An Ariane 6 heavy lifter topped with 32 Amazon Leo satellites launched from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Thursday, at 4:57 a.m. EDT (0857 GMT; 5:57 a.m. local time …

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Trump invited the Artemis 2 moon astronauts to the White House.

NASA's Artemis 2 moon astronauts just got some face time with the president, though they stayed firmly in the background. President Trump invited the Artemis 2 quartet and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to the Oval Office today (April 29), for a livestreamed press eve…

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Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026.

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a spectacular nebula in all its glory. (And yes, it does kind of look like a cosmic sea slug.) Nearly 30 years ago, Hubble looked at the Trifid Nebula. To celebrate the upcoming 36th anniversary of the telescope's …

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James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs.

The spectacular birthplace of weird carbon molecules known as "buckyballs" came to light in new imagery of a nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope. The gas cloud includes an upside-down question mark shape, which marks a structure scientists don't yet und…

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Rocket Lab launches Japanese 'origami' satellite, 7 other spacecraft to orbit.

Rocket Lab sent eight Japanese satellites to orbit from New Zealand on Wednesday night (April 22), including one with a unique "origami" construction. An Electron vehicle launched the "Kakuchin Rising" mission from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Wed…

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Congress objects (again) to Trump's planned NASA budget cuts.

President Trump's big NASA budget cuts appear to be dead on arrival, again. Earlier this month, the White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2027 federal budget request, which slashes NASA's total budget by 23% and its science funding by 47%. Trump proposed the same …

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NASA's TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before.

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets (ASTEP) on the Antarctic Plateau, astronomers have discovered a rare and uniquely weird planetary system. The extrasolar planets, or exop…

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Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials: 'It's a medical crisis.'

Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials are so hard-hit. “The rate of rectal cancer seems to be increasing more than two to three times compared to colon cancer,”…

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NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-13 Assignments for Space Station Mission.

As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than mid-September to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition. NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will serve as spacecraf…

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Iran war revives European rooftop solar demand to cut energy bills.

Demand for rooftop solar systems across Europe has surged since the start of the Iran war, as households rush to shield themselves from soaring power prices triggered by the worst global energy disruption in history. The ​conflict has pushed oil, gas and electricity prices s…

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US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400,000 on Maduro raid.

A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday, Master Sgt. Gannon Ken Van Dyke opened …

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Meet the US Navy divers who welcomed the Artemis 2 astronauts home from the moon.

Four U.S. Navy divers were the first faces to greet NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts when they splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after their historic journey around the moon this month. Theve medical team — Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Wang, Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Laddy Aldridge,…

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Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket grounded after launch mishap.

Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket has been temporarily grounded. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring an investigation into New Glenn's third-ever mission, which launched on Sunday morning (April 19) and resulted in the loss of its payload — …

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Celebrate Earth Day with this Artemis 2 shot | Space photo of the day for April 22, 2026.

Happy Earth Day! This year, we're celebrating with brand-new photos captured by the astronauts who journeyed around the moon and back on NASA's Artemis 2 mission. What is it? On April 1, 2026, four astronauts launched on Artemis 2, the first crewed mission to the moon …

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Two Pakistani astronauts selected as candidates for China space programme.

China has ​selected two Pakistani ‌astronauts as candidates for ​its manned ​space programme, state broadcaster ⁠CCTV ​reported on Wednesday. Both ​will travel to China for training, ​and ​one will participate in ‌a ⁠flight mission as a payload specialist ​and ​become ⁠the f…

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