A group of US businesses filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The suit was filed in the US Court of International Trade by the Liberty Justice Center, a legal advocacy …
Legendary Boxer George Foreman Dead at 76.
Boxing legend George Foreman has died at 76 years old, his family announced Friday. "Big George" -- a two-time heavyweight champion -- participated in some of the most important boxing events of all time. Foreman burst onto the scene in 1968 at the Summer Olympics i…
50,000 killed in Gaza since start of Israel-Hamas war, health ministry says.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began, the territory’s health ministry said Sunday, a grim milestone for a war with no end in sight as Israel resumes fighting and warns of even tougher days ahead. The ministry on Sunday re…
Tesla recalls more than 46,000 Cybertrucks over a faulty exterior panel.
Tesla is recalling more than 46,000 Cybertrucks due to a potential safety issue. According to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the armored vehicle's cant rail (a cosmetic exterior trim panel) could detach from the truck, potentia…
01st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil delayed due to unsafe winds.
The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace was targeting no earlier than Monday, March 24, for the maiden voyage of its brand new Spectrum rocket. The Spectrum was set to liftoff from the Andøya Spaceport, in…
Former US Attorney Jessica Aber found dead in Virginia at 43.
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber was found dead Saturday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, according to police. She was 43. Police in Alexandria, Virginia, were called to a home on Beverly Drive in the suburb of Washington, D.C., at aroun…
James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds.
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect biosignatures, according to a new study. Those potential signs of life are a g…
Canada's Dunfee breaks 35km race walk world record.
Canadian Evan Dunfee broke the men's 35-kilometre race walk world record with a time of two hours, 21 minutes and 40 seconds in Dundice, Slovakia on Saturday. Dunfee, 34, shaved seven seconds off the record set by Japan's Masatora Kawano last October, going solo from…
SpaceX sets new rocket-reuse record on launch of US spy satellites.
SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday at 2:49 a.m. EDT (0649 GMT; 11:49 p.m. on March 20 local California time), on the NROL-57 mission for the U.S. National…
Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen.
Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated JADES-GS-z14-0, has 10 times the amount of heavy elements that would be expected in a …
"Venus kiss" happens Saturday as the planet passes between the Earth and sun.
Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. The moment of conjunction will happen at around 9 p.m. EDT, but don't plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely difficult to spot without special equipment and…
Elon Musk’s X regains $44 billion valuation in major comeback.
Elon Musk’s X has reportedly regained a $44 billion valuation – the same price the world’s richest person paid to buy the social media site in 2022. The company formerly known as Twitter was valued at $44 billion in a recent secondary financing round in which investors excha…
New outbreak of deadly bird flu strain confirmed for first time in 8 years.
A new bird flu outbreak has been confirmed as the virus continues to spread across the U.S. The deadly H7N9 strain was detected on a poultry farm in Noxubee, Mississippi, last week, for the first time since 2017. The infection of 47,654 commercial broiler-breeder chickens was…
Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy.
Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way…
Dolphins welcome SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts home after splashdown.
SpaceX's Crew-9 astronauts had some company in the water after they splashed down on Tuesday afternoon (March 18). The Crew-9 mission returned to Earth at 5:57 p.m. EDT (2157 GMT) on Tuesday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. A f…
Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch.
The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA. Starlab, a joint project between the U.S. space technology firm Voyager Space and European aerospace conglomerate Airbus, will consist of …
Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS.
NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned nine months in space. The pair performed the first astronaut-crewed Boeing's Starliner capsule flight to the International Space Statio…
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Return to Earth after Being Stuck in Space for 9 Months.
Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are officially back home. The astronauts safely returned to Earth on March 18, following an extended nine month stay in space. Their journey back comes after a joint NASA and SpaceX crew of four astronauts—from the United Stat…
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts.
SpaceX's Crew-10 astronaut mission has arrived at the International Space Station, ending a 28-hour orbital chase. Crew-10 launched on Friday evening (March 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending four astronauts from three different nations toward the orbiting lab. Cr…
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03PM Eastern on March 14. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…
A river ‘died’ overnight in Zambia after an acidic waste spill at a Chinese-owned mine.
Authorities and environmentalists in Zambia fear the long-term impact of an acid spill at a Chinese-owned mine that contaminated a major river and could potentially affect millions of people after signs of pollution were detected at least 100 kilometers (60 miles) downstrea…
Starship, carrying Tesla's bot, set for Mars by end-2026.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday 14th that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla, opens new tab humanoid bot Optimus. Musk suggested in a post on X that human landings could begin as early as 2029, though 2031 was more likely if t…
Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe.
Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, and gaining new images of Mars' little-seen moon Deimos, which could…
Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit.
We now have shots of the Athena moon lander's final resting place. Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orient…
'Blood Worm Moon' US weather forecast: Best places to see tonight's total lunar eclipse.
As far as viewing prospects for tonight's total eclipse of the moon are concerned, it would appear that three-quarters of the nation will have at least some occasional views of the moon plunging through Earth's dark shadow. The period of total eclipse will begin at …
A total lunar eclipse comes to North America tonight: Here's everything you need to know about the 'Blood Worm Moon'
The moon will turn red tonight for skywatchers across the U.S., but to see this total lunar eclipse unfold, you need to be in the right place at the right time. The total lunar eclipse will happen overnight tonight (March 13-14) during March's full moon, with the maximum…
SpaceX calls off Crew-10 astronaut launch for NASA due to hydraulics issue
SpaceX won't launch its next astronaut mission for NASA today (March 12) after all. The company had planned to send the four-person Crew-10 mission toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this evening at 7:…
What will happen during the total lunar eclipse of March 2025 ?
More than two years have passed since most of North America saw a total lunar eclipse. So be sure to put a big circle on your calendar for Thursday, March 13. The viewing circumstances for the total eclipse of the full moon that night will be as good as it can get for much o…
Watch the moon turn red during a total lunar eclipse in March.
A total lunar eclipse will flush the moon red Thursday night into Friday morning across the Western Hemisphere. The best views will be from North America and South America. Parts of Africa and Europe may catch a glimpse. Lunar eclipses happen when the moon, Earth and sun alig…
NASA delays launch of newest space telescope to search for life’s key ingredients.
NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH, will have to wait a bit longer to lift off to space together, according to the space agency. Both missions were expected to lau…
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