SpaceX Dragon says goodbye to the ISS.

SpaceX's Cargo Dragon capsule shines in the sunlight over Earth as it departs from the International Space Station in a new image snapped from onboard the station. What is it? Peering through the window of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Jessica Meir…

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This 'improbable' exoplanet system is so wonky because of a weird object within.

Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scientists have discovered a planetary system that scientists are calling "improbable." It could change how we think about the mechanisms behind planet formation. The reason…

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope arrives in Florida ahead of SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch this summer.

The heavy hitters in space telescopes are about to be joined by a new contender. NASA's Nancy Roman Grace Space Telescope arrived at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, on Sunday (June 21), for final tests ahead of launching later this summer. Roman was shipped t…

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SpaceX launches its 1st 'Starfall' reentry capsule in early morning Falcon 9 liftoff.

SpaceX's newest spaceflight tech has to launched to the final frontier for the first time. The company's Starfall capsule took to the skies on its debut mission today (June 23), following SpaceX's application with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) fo…

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Billionaire Adani Met Trump Jr. While Facing US Bribery Charges.

Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, held a private meeting with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani while visiting the country in November last year, as the billionaire faced federal fraud and bribery charges in the U.S.— dropped by the Trump administration last month…

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Mark Zuckerberg Directed Meta to Create a Prediction Markets App.

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets. Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets where users can bet on outcomes as varied as …

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NASA Webb Finds Strongest Evidence Yet for ‘Black Hole Stars’.

The complex puzzle known as little red dots has become more complete since their initial discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. Now a particular little red dot’s spectrum is helping connect many of the pieces. A team of astronomers led by Vasily Kokorev at t…

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53% of Americans fear AI could take their jobs, poll finds.

More than half of Americans — 53% — fear artificial intelligence could cost them or someone in their household a job, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds. The findings come as companies ramp up AI investments while trimming their workforces, fueling concern across demographics. A…

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A total solar eclipse will occur this summer. Everything you need to know.

A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years on August 12. A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, casting a shadow on our planet that fully blocks the sun’s light from some…

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Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition.

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that hints at spiral structure, yet it holds no obvious spiral arms. Reddish-brown clumps and filaments of dust partially obscure the galaxy’s full face, while red, blue, and …

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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station.

The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Statio…

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NASA Outlines Preliminary Artemis III Mission Plans.

NASA is moving quickly to define next year’s Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency’s Orion spacecraft and commercial landers from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Since a February announcement adding…

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US citizen convicted of running secret Chinese 'police station' in NYC.

A US citizen has been convicted of helping run what has been described as the first known secret police station in the US on behalf of the Chinese government. A jury found that Lu Jianwang, 64, opened and operated the station in Manhattan's Chinatown neighbourhood in ear…

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NASA’s curiosity takes close look at rock that got stuck on drill.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed “Atacama” on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to the drill on the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm on April 25. Engine…

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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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