The CIA used a Star Wars fan site to secretly communicate with spies.

The internet has seen its fair share of weird, but a Star Wars fan site secretly run by the CIA to communicate with overseas spies might top the list. StarWarsWeb.net looked like any other 2010-era fan page, complete with lightsabers, Yoda quotes ("Like these games you…

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SpaceX cargo Dragon departs International Space Station, begins return journey to Earth.

SpaceX's 32nd robotic Dragon cargo mission undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) today (May 23), after a one-day delay due to bad weather at the splashdown site. NASA and SpaceX integrated operation teams polled "go" for undocking at 11:50 a.m. ED…

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Crypto World Bitcoin hits new record high near $112,000 as rally marches on.

Bitcoin continued its rally on Thursday, hitting a brand new record high near $112,000. It’s been a slow rally for bitcoin driven by institutional ownership and corporate adoption. Easing trade tensions between the U.S. and China and the Moody’s downgrade of U.S. sovereign de…

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China's BYD outsells Tesla in Europe for first time.

Chinese automaker BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab sold more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab for the first time, according to a report by JATO Dynamics, as an aging model lineup and CEO Elon Musk's politics hurt demand for the U.S. EV maker&…

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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk’s X.

A fire broke out Thursday morning at a data center in Hillsboro, Oregon, leased by Elon Musk’s X, forcing an extended response from emergency crews, according to multiple sources who spoke to WIRED. The sources required anonymity as they aren’t authorized to speak publicly …

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Ax-4 private astronaut mission to the ISS is 'go' for its June 8 SpaceX launch.

The next private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) just completed a major milestone ahead of its upcoming launch. Houston-based company Axiom Space completed an internal Flight Readiness Review (FRR) on Wednesday (May 21) ahead of the launch of the c…

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Scientists find rare double-star system where one star orbited inside the other.

Astronomers may have discovered a rare type of binary star system, where one star used to orbit inside its partner. In the new study, astronomers investigated a pulsar known as PSR J1928+1815 located about 455 light-years from Earth. A pulsar is a kind of neutron star, a cor…

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SpaceX gets FAA approval for Flight 9 of Starship mega rocket.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared SpaceX's giant Starship rocket for its ninth-ever liftoff. The FAA announced the decision today (May 22) after taking a long look at the anomaly that occurred on Starship's most recent mission, which launched…

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Watch tile-shedding private Chinese rocket launch 6 satellites to orbit.

The Chinese company LandSpace launched its methane-powered Zhugque-2E rocket on Saturday (May 17), carrying a batch of six satellites to orbit. Zhugque-2E lifted off Saturday at 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT; 12:12 p.m. in Beijing) from Site 96 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Cen…

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NASA legend Gene Kranz returns to mission control.

Gene Kranz, who served in Apollo mission control as "White Flight," was at the head of the room when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Apollo 13 "had a problem." He may have never said "Failure is not an option," but his record of success has ea…

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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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