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SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship’s engines ahead of 13th test flight (video)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.SpaceX conducts a static fire test with Ship 40, the upper-stage spacecraft slated to fly Starship's 13th test flight. The company posted this imagery on X on July 2,...
Satellite rescue mission to NASA orbiting observatory postponed
By Joey Roulette and Steve GormanWASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Weather and technical snags have forced NASA and its partner space company Katalyst to indefinitely postpone a first-of-its-kind mission to tow an aging U.S. satellite observatory into a safer orbit using...
Planet found orbiting a dead star could preview what will happen to our solar system
New observations may offer fresh clues into how a giant exoplanet survived the violent death of its host star — and came to closely orbit its stellar remnants.The findings could serve as a preview of the fate that may await our solar system’s largest planets — such as...
Apollo 11 landing site, a cosmic Eagle and a blue-white star: 4 night sky targets to celebrate America 250
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The Milky Way arches into the skies over Nevada. | Credit: Photo by DAVID BECKER/AFP via Getty ImagesThe United States' 250th birthday is almost here, so why not take...
Researchers launch study on Ebola treatments as Congo outbreak worsens
Researchers began a highly anticipated study of two possible Ebola treatments on Thursday in hopes of fighting the still-growing outbreak in eastern Congo, as the World Health Organization announced the enrollment of the first participant.The virus causing this...
How to invade planet Earth: An alien’s guide to bringing the human race to its knees
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros.It looks there for the taking, doesn't it? The third rock from the sun just sitting there, all...
Barcelona introduces heat-monitoring bracelets for its outdoor workers
(Clarifies the worker died after her shift, not during, in paragraph 6, corrects gender of speaker in paragraph 9)By Horaci GarciaBARCELONA, July 2 (Reuters) - With Spain already sweltering under successive heatwaves that caused more than 1,000 excess deaths in...
‘Flying saucer’ arrives at NASA for Artemis 3 moon mission in time for World UFO Day | Space photo of the d…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The weather cover for the Artemis 3 SLS core stage arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. | Credit: NASA/Amber Jean NotvestDid a flying saucer just land at NASA? It...
“Once-in-a-generation” expedition launched to survey 2 legendary shipwrecks
Canadian researchers will begin a "once-in-a-generation" expedition to survey two legendary shipwrecks, which belonged to an iconic pair of polar explorers, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society said.The organization is due to send human-occupied and remotely...
What will happen when our sun starts dying? These ‘stellar archaeologists’ may have found a clue
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The sun seen in two different X-ray wavelengths, 17.4 and 30.4 nanometers, on 21 May 2024. | Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI TeamActing as stellar...
These ‘interstellar glaciers’ could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The chemical signatures of water ice (shown in bright blue) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (orange) in Cygnus X, one of the most active and turbulent regions of...
A destructive ‘jumping worm’ is invading Colorado and Western states, officials warn
A destructive "jumping worm" species is threatening gardens in Colorado and the West, state officials said Tuesday as they urged green thumbs to keep their eyes peeled for the invasive pests.There are "currently no effective eradication methods for" the "Asian jumping...
NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An illustration of a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting its star with very different siblings. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)Using NASA's exoplanet-hunting...
Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.This image of the Trifid Nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope 29 years after the telescope first imaged the nebula in 1997. | Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI;...
Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization
MACAPA, Brazil (AP) — Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The same roadwork, however, has also allowed archaeologists to get glimpses of the region’s past long before Europeans arrived to...
Japan’s audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Japan's MMX sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos arrives at its Tanegashima launch site on March 31, 2026. Liftoff is expected in November or December of...
Scientists trace latest interstellar comet’s home to a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The comet that rambled past us from another star last year likely originated in a cold, isolated corner of the galaxy that had yet to gel into its own solar system, astronomers reported Thursday.Comet 3I/Atlas is only the third interstellar...
From ‘Starfield’ to Artemis: designing moonbases in games and reality
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Water to surge into drought-depleted Lake Powell but at costs elsewhere
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Canyons in eastern Utah will churn this spring with huge volumes of water — as much as 50,000 toilets flushing constantly at the same time — in a desperate attempt to maintain electricity generation for thousands of homes across much of the...
Watch Rocket Lab launch Japanese ‘origami’ satellite, 7 other spacecraft to orbit tonight
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches the "RAISE and Shine" mission from New Zealand on Dec. 13, 2025. | Credit: Rocket LabRocket Lab will send eight Japanese...
Gibraltar’s monkeys find a clever way to avoid a junk food bellyache
By Marta SerafinkoApril 22 (Reuters) - On the tourist-packed Rock of Gibraltar, one of the most common sights is monkeys begging for food - and sometimes stealing sweet and salty snacks from unsuspecting visitors. Scientists now have documented an unusual behaviour...
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