Harvard Law School bought a copy of Magna Carta for $27. Turns out, it’s actually an original.

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians were able to verify the document’s true authenticity after an academic stumbled across…

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Ancient home shows evidence of how Pompeiians tried to shelter from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Ultimately, the home became their final resting place, …

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SpaceX's next private astronaut launch to ISS, Ax-4, delayed to June 8.

We'll have a wait a bit longer to see the next private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) lift off. NASA announced on Wednesday (May 14) that the target launch date for Ax-4, the fourth crewed flight to the ISS by Houston-based company Axiom Space…

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Launch of Australia's 1st homegrown orbital rocket delayed indefinitely due to payload fairing issue.

We'll have to wait a bit longer for the first-ever launch of an Australian orbital rocket. Queensland-based company Gilmour Space had aimed to debut its Eris rocket today (May 15), but a problem with the vehicle's payload fairing scuttled that plan. Gilmour Space Tech…

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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years.

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat became necessary because the spacecraft's primary thrusters, w…

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WHO declares polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea.

The World Health Organisation has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign. Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a coastal city in the co…

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Scientists calculate when the universe will end it's sooner than expected.

As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars will slowly burn out, planets will freeze over, and black holes will devour light itself. Eventually, on timescales so long humanity will never witness them, the universe will fade into darkness. But if you've ever wondered…

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Varda successfully returns 3rd space capsule from orbit.

California startup Varda Space Industries has completed its third successful space capsule return mission. Varda's W-3 reentry capsule landed in South Australia on Tuesday night (May 13), delivering a payload and data from an advanced hypersonic navigation systems test f…

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Princess Diana's Ice-Blue Cannes Dress paid tribute to a royal fashion icon 38 years ago.

Princess Diana attended the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 1987, alongside then-husband Prince Charles. The Princess of Wales’s strapless blue tulle gown paid tribute to Princess Grace of Monaco, who had died five years prior in a 1982 car accident, and her famous role in &…

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Jeanine Pirro sworn in as interim US attorney.

Former judge Jeanine Pirro was sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Pirro, 73, will now lead a team of attorneys in defending President Donald Trump's administration in court as well as prosecuting local crimes in the nation's capital. …

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Norway becomes 55th nation to sign NASA Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration.

Fifty-five nations have now penned their commitment to NASA's Artemis Accords. NASA announced Norway's decision to join the Artemis Accords for a "safe, peaceful, and prosperous future in space" as the space agency's website phrases it. Norway is the th…

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SpaceX will launch Starship's 9th test flight next week.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again next week, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk announced that timeline target in a Tuesday evening (May 13) X post, which also included another nugget of news that space fans will find interesting. "Just before the Sta…

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1 Astronaut, many cameras and 220 days of amazing images from space

Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, returned to Earth on April 20, the day he turned 70 years old. That concluded his fourth trip to space — a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. Like other crew members on the space station, Mr. Pettit conducted experim…

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Mexican-American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose dies at 73.

Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, including “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” has died. He was 73. Rodriguez died Friday, acc…

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The real trump family business is crypto.

Early Monday morning, the leader of the free world had a message to convey. Not about the economic turmoil from tariffs, any one of the skirmishes playing out abroad, or a surprise shake-up in his White House staff. Instead, President Donald Trump turned to Truth Social to …

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Failed Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth tonight.

Update for 8:30 a.m. ET on May 10: Kosmos 482 has fallen harmlessly into the Indian Ocean west of Indonesia, according to according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. In 1972, the Soviet Union launched the Kosmos 482 lander, a spacecraft designed to reach Venus and land…

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Bill Gates to give away $200 billion by 2045.

Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away $200 billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world's richest man of "killing the world's poorest children" through huge cuts to the U.S. foreign aid budget. The 69-y…

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Josaia Raisuqe, rugby star who won silver at Paris Olympics with Fiji, dead after accident involving train.

Josaia Raisuqe, a rugby star who medaled for Fiji at the Paris Olympics, died after a train reportedly struck his vehicle as he drove to training.  Raisuqe’s rugby club, Castres, confirmed his death Thursday. He was 30 years old.  "Castres Olympique is in mourning,"…

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Satellites show 28 US cities are sinking, including NYC and Chicago.

A new study has found that the 28 most populous cities in the United States — including New York, Chicago, Dallas and Denver — are sinking at rates between two and 10 millimeters (0.08 and 0.4 inches) per year. Using satellite-based radar measurements, a team of researchers …

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Boeing now plans to deliver new Air Force One jets in 2027.

Long-delayed next Air Force One jets from Boeing might now be delivered by 2027 — in time for President Donald Trump to use them, according to a top Air Force official. While that’s still years behind the original delivery date of 2022, it’s one to two years earlier than Boe…

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SpaceX gets FAA approval for 25 Starship launches per year.

SpaceX just got permission to ramp up launches of its Starship mega rocket from South Texas. On Tuesday (May 6), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its final environmental assessment (EA) of Starship operations at Starbase, the SpaceX facility near Brown…

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Trump Names Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney in Washington.

President Trump said on Thursday that he would name the Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, whose false statements about the 2020 election were part of a lawsuit against the network, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, hours after he was forced to pull his first choic…

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A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on May 09.

On May 9, a stadium-sized potentially hazardous asteroid will pass by Earth, and you can watch the flyby happen in real time courtesy of a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. The main belt asteroid 612356 2002 JX8 is estimated to have a diameter of 950 feet (290 m…

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The emergency appeal is the first in a string of applications…

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Tech Jeff Bezos discloses plan to sell up to $4.8 billion in Amazon stock.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos plans to sell up to 25 million shares in the company over the next year, according to a financial filing on Friday. Bezos, who stepped down as CEO in 2021 but remains Amazon’s top shareholder, is selling the shares as part of a trading plan adopted …

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Tesla sales have collapsed in Sweden.

Tesla’s sales have now collapsed in Sweden, with only just over 200 cars delivered in the country last month – down 80% year-over-year. In 2024, Tesla had its best year yet in Sweden. The automaker delivered on average 1,825 vehicles per month. That was a great result amid Te…

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NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope begins capturing entire sky.

After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to create a map of the cosmos like no other. Launched on March 11, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, ca…

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Watch 2 NASA astronauts perform the 5th-ever all-female spacewalk.

Two NASA astronauts will conduct the fifth all-female spacewalk in history today (May 1), and you can watch the action live. Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain will head outside the International Space Station (ISS) today at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT), kicking off a spacewalk expecte…

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A massive explosion at an Iranian port linked to missile fuel shipment kills 14, injures some 750.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 14 people and injuring around 750 others. Helicopters and aircraft dumped water from the air on the raging …

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Hall of Famer, bears legend Steve 'Mongo' McMichael dies at 67 following battle with ALS.

As a wild man on an otherworldly defense, Steve McMichael demanded attention with his personality and his play. A 6-foot-2, 270-pound barbarian of the autumn who terrorized opposing offenses, the man known as "Mongo" was a Texas native who became a beloved Chicago …

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