Scientists just found the fastest known star in the Milky Way.

Astronomers have found the fastest known star in the Milky Way, a faint object racing around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Dubbed S301, the star reaches about 15,500 miles (25,000 kilometers) per second at its fastest — more than 8%…

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Hydrogen-powered 'rocket car' tops 400 mph in record-breaking test.

Is it a rocket car? Tearing across the Utah desert at over 400 mph (644 kph), a hydrogen-powered car has set a new land speed record. Wing Commander Andy Green, a retired British Royal Air Force fighter pilot, just set a new world land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Fla…

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Rocket Lab launches private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit.

Rocket Lab launched a private Japanese satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), adding to a growing constellation of Earth-observing spacecraft. An Electron vehicle lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site at 9:04 a.m. EDT (1304 GMT; 1:04 a.m. on Aug. 21 local New…

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Mysterious Russian 'space activity' causes US Air Force flight to Antarctica to turn around.

A mysterious incident over the southern Indian Ocean forced a U.S. Air Force aircraft to turn around due to an unnamed hazard in space. According to several New Zealand-based news outlets, a U.S. Air Force (USAF) C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft left Christchurch Airport …

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Private mission to save NASA's Swift space telescope fails.

NASA is calling off the effort to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after a private rescue spacecraft couldn't overcome its own problems in orbit. LINK, the specialized probe from Katalyst Space that NASA contracted for the Swift Boost mission, was delivered to spa…

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Chinese stem cell therapy reverses heart failure in 90% of patients in landmark trial.

A hospital in east China has used reprogrammed stem cells to treat severe heart failure, with 90 per cent of patients showing significant recovery in heart function after the novel therapy. On Wednesday, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, affiliated with Nanjing University, releas…

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NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission.

Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned. However, LINK still will attempt to c…

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NASA’s LRO Images Falcon 9 Crater on Moon, Learns New Details.

Between Aug. 11 and 12, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured a series of images of a new crater on the Moon. The crater formed on Aug. 5, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impacted the surface following its January 2025 launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost 1 miss…

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New images reveal the impact site of SpaceX rocket’s moon collision.

New images from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon reveal a fresh, 60-foot-wide crater formed by a wayward SpaceX rocket that slammed into the lunar surface earlier this month. The crash involved the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that originally launched on January 15, 20…

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Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan moved to hospital from jail over health concerns.

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that jailed former prime minister Imran Khan be moved to hospital for medical checks, after a petition by his lawyers over claims of poor health. Justice Shahid Waheed said 73-year-old Khan, who has been in jail since 2023 on c…

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Wildfire smoke blankets volcanoes across the Pacific Northwest | Space photo of the day for Aug. 17, 2026.

Imagine orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth and seeing your home planet below — up in smoke. That was the reality recently for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) who captured this image of the volcano Mount Rainier covered in smoke from nearby wildfir…

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Scientists find dead star that predicts our sun's future.

Astronomers have watched a dead star, in the guise of the Helix Nebula, being recycled back into the interstellar gas from which it originally came, bringing the story of that star full circle. Stars can last for millions, or even billions, of years, but they do not last for…

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China bounces back from Long March rocket explosion with back-to-back launches.

China just completed not one but two space missions, less than a week after a Long March 7A rocket explosion briefly grounded its fleet. The state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) returned to flight with the launch of a Long March 12 rocket fro…

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Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida.

President Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary, according to local voting records, even as he continues to rail against mail-in voting with wide-ranging allegations of fraud. Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot …

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UK government ‘irresponsible’ for not publishing emergency drought plans.

The UK government has been accused of a lack of transparency and of acting irresponsibly for refusing to publish the emergency drought plans that are produced by water companies. Water firms are required to publish statutory drought plans every five years to detail the actio…

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Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years.

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This…

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European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaves.

Successive intense heatwaves and an increasingly severe, continent-wide drought have left many of Europe’s farmers in an “unprecedented” crisis, with vegetable and grain growers in particular warning of “catastrophic” harvests. French vegetable production is down by “a very …

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Quote of the day by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: 'Our industry does not respect tradition.

Tech companies, including those in Silicon Valley and others outside of the set like Microsoft, have been through various guises through the years. Plenty of the old tech giants, like IBM and Toshiba, continue to enjoy success in the 21st century due to a chameleon-like qua…

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Ferrari's first ever electric car sold for record $40m at auction.

Ferrari's first ever all-electric car has fetched $40m (£29.5m) in a charity sale, setting a record for a new car sold at auction. The RM Sotheby's auction in California raised more than 35 times the usual price of a Ferrari Luce. The auction house said the "fir…

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Trump says US to scale back South Korea military drills after it stayed out of Iran war.

President Donald Trump has said the US will "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea, citing his "very good relationship" with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un. He also noted on Truth Social that South Korea had recently declin…

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Open-weight Chinese AI models gain foothold in Europe despite Brussels’ trepidation.

European businesses are increasingly weighing whether cheap but capable Chinese artificial intelligence systems represent a new threat to the continent’s technological sovereignty or a practical tool to strengthen it. While using Chinese technology might seem counterintuitiv…

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SpaceX Plans Starlink Mobile Service to Compete With Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile.

SpaceX shared plans to create a cellular service during its first earnings call after its IPO, reports Reuters. SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company will "build out terrestrial" with the spectrum that it acquired from EchoStar. She added that SpaceX in…

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Satellite imagery captures race to recover 170-foot SpaceX Starship in the Indian Ocean.

Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, which wound up floating in the Indian Ocean after the company’s latest test flight. Now, satellites have captured mind-bending images of boats working to haul t…

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