COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show.

COVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021. Tha…

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Tehran confirms top security official Ali Larijani has been killed.

Tehran has confirmed that its top security official Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has been killed. The Supreme National Security Council of Iran announced the death of Larijani in a statement early Wednesday local time, describing him a…

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How fast is the universe expanding? Astronomers may be one step closer to resolving 'Hubble trouble'.

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling headaches in cosmology, the Hubble tension. The Hubble constant — named after Edwin…

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Two days, two coasts, two more SpaceX Starlink batches launched.

SpaceX launched two more sets of Starlink satellites on back-to-back, coast-to-coast flights on Friday and Saturday. First up, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 13. The 25 satellites (Group 17-31…

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 27th Swing Around the Sun.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface. The flyby allowed the spacecraft to conduct measurements of the solar wind and solar …

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NASA Invites Media to Learn About Upcoming X-59 Test Flights.

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete its second flight, in California. F…

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United Arab Emirates briefly closes airspace as Israel strikes Lebanon and Tehran.

Explosions sounded over Dubai early Tuesday as the United Arab Emirates’ military worked to intercept incoming Iranian fire that caused the country to briefly close its airspace as Israel launched new strikes in war in the Middle East. The Israeli military said early Tuesday…

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Strait of Hormuz standoff puts supply of America’s generic drug prescriptions at risk.

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is a military strategy with vast consequences for the global economy, not just in the form of higher oil prices, but with disruptions in supply chains involving metals and manufacturing, and farming and food prices. And at some po…

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On this day in space: March 17, 1958: US launches its second satellite, Vanguard 1

On St. Patrick's Day in 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite and the oldest artificial satellite currently orbiting Earth. The main purpose of this mission was to test a new three-stage rocket. Vanguard 1 was the fourth satellite eve…

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ISS astronauts take out the space trash.

A photo captures Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL freighter being jettisoned away from the International Space Station carrying thousands of pounds of garbage, headed for a fiery demise. A new extra-large spacecraft loaded with garbage prepares to meet its fiery demise in Ea…

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Timboy Chaco in the Mars borderlands | Space photo of the day for March 16, 2026.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spied a pitted rock face as it explores a region of the Red Planet known as Mount Sharp, a mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) tall within Mars' Gale Crater. NASA has named the rock "Timboy Chaco." What is it? Curiosity has been i…

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Oscar Winners 2026: ‘One Battle After Another’ Triumphs With 6 Wins, ‘Sinners’ Follows With 4.

“One Battle After Another,” a political thriller set in a police state version of America, triumphed at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday, winning six Oscars, including best picture. Paul Thomas Anderson, the creative force behind the film, was named best director and picke…

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‘Sinners’ DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw Makes Oscar History as First Woman to Win Best Cinematography.

“Sinners” DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw has made history. She is the first woman to ever win the Oscar for best cinematography. Arkapaw, who is of Filipino and African American Creole descent, is now also the first woman of color to win. In the history of the category, only three…

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Dinosaur fossils in Brazil reveal new giant species.

SAO PAULO, March 13 (Reuters) - Brazilian scientists have identified a new species of giant dinosaur with ties to a similar animal ​found in Spain, reinforcing knowledge that land routes once ‌connected parts of South America, Africa and Europe about 120 million years ago. N…

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Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount.

Meta (META.O), opens new tab is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as ‌Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency broug…

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Delays with SpaceX's Starship risk NASA moon landing timeline, watchdog says.

SpaceX's Starship has accumulated ​at least two years of development delays since NASA picked the rocket as an astronaut moon lander ‌in 2021, and is expected to require more time to clear remaining hurdles before landing on the moon, NASA's inspector general said T…

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Crude futures turn positive on continued Hormuz closure.

Crude futures climbed higher on Friday as the Strait of Hormuz remained closed, but analysts were wary the weekend ​might bring surprise changes in the status of the war two weeks after it started. Brent futures for May settled at $103.14 a barrel, up $2.68, ‌or 2.67%. U.S. …

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SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday morning, carrying 25 broadband internet satellites for SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 6:57:59 a.m. PDT (10:57:59 a.m. ED…

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