Iran ready to let Japanese vessels transit Hormuz.

Iran is ready to let Japanese-related vessels pass through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global ​oil supplies, Kyodo news reported, citing Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. Tehran ‌has started talks with Tokyo, including with Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Mote…

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NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Aircraft Makes Second Flight.

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026.  Although the flight duration was abbreviated due to a technical issue, the team was able to collect information that will inform future tests.  “De…

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Chuck Norris, martial artist and Hollywood movie star, dies aged 86.

Tributes have been pouring in from around the world to US martial artist and Hollywood action star Chuck Norris, who died aged 86. "He may have a warrior exterior, but his heart was so full of love," his daughter Danilee Norris said. Swedish actor and martial artist…

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Jury finds Elon Musk liable for misleading investors during Twitter purchase.

A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion. But it absolved him of some fraud allegations, finding …

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NASA to Cover Progress 94 Spacecraft Launch, Space Station Docking.

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch…

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2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus.

Was there a New World order we didn’t know about? The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our understanding of the New World, raising the possibility that Italians arrived in the Americas long before Christopher Columbus. Dubbed the Tecaxic-Cali…

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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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