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The Pentagon on Monday added roughly two dozen Chinese companies — including e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba, search and AI firm Baidu, and electric vehicle maker BYD — to its annual list of businesses the U.S. identifies as aiding…
4 MIN READSouth Korea's presidential office said Friday there has been no major change to its plan to build nuclear-powered submarines domestically, as Seoul and Washington resumed talks on nuclear cooperation and the transfer of wartime operational…
3 MIN READWASHINGTON (MSI) — President Donald Trump on Friday issued a memo directing the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence, while acknowledging the need to protect civil liberties and…
4 MIN READAs SpaceX prepares for its initial public offering this month, investors are looking beyond Elon Musk's company to other space economy players. Rocket Lab, a Nasdaq-listed launch provider, has emerged as a leading contender with a growing…
3 MIN READA 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck approximately 14 miles west of Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon, with no immediate reports of damage or injury, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
3 MIN READThe European Union announced Wednesday a €92 million ($107 million) investment package to expand its ocean monitoring network using underwater drones and satellites, as the Trump administration prepares severe cuts to a similar U.S.…
3 MIN READSeveral leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX, are moving toward initial public offerings this year at valuations reaching into the trillions of dollars, according to the Associated Press. The…
4 MIN READNASA has declared the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Environment (MAVEN) satellite unrecoverable and its mission concluded, nearly six months after losing contact with the spacecraft. The agency held a media teleconference Wednesday to…
3 MIN READMicrosoft announced Tuesday that its second-generation Majorana quantum chip, Majorana 2, is 1,000 times more reliable than its predecessor, with qubits that survive for an average of 20 seconds compared to milliseconds on the first chip.…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Tuesday outlined the first phase of a planned permanent moon base, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies to deliver landers, rovers and drones to the lunar surface, with…
3 MIN READA new artificial intelligence detection network called WhaleSpotter went live this week in San Francisco Bay, continuously scanning for whale blows and heat signatures up to two nautical miles away and alerting ferry captains and cargo…
3 MIN READThe World Meteorological Organization and the United Kingdom's Meteorological Office project a 75% chance that average global temperature between 2026 and 2030 will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, smashing the Paris…
3 MIN READThe biotech company Colossal Biosciences said Tuesday that it hatched 26 baby chickens in an artificial environment using an eggshell-like structure. Scientists not involved in the work said the development shows progress in avian embryo…
3 MIN READNPR’s “Spacing Out” space nerd club segment on May 25, 2026 highlighted new James Webb Space Telescope results on Neptune’s moon Nereid, a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet’s day-to-night cloud pattern, and what auroras can signal about solar…
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SpaceX launched its biggest and most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, sending the upgraded vehicle into the Indian Ocean after a mission that included mock Starlink satellite releases. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joined…
3 MIN READSpaceX launched its biggest, upgraded Starship yet on a test flight Friday from the southern tip of Texas, sending a redesigned rocket toward the Indian Ocean and releasing 20 mock Starlink satellites midflight. NASA Administrator Jared…
3 MIN READPope Leo XIV will unveil his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, the Vatican said. The Vatican will present the document in the main Vatican auditorium with senior cardinals and Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah among the…
3 MIN READSpaceX has filed a 250-page prospectus for what could be the largest initial public offering in history, revealing plans for interplanetary travel and spending that exceeds the economic output of some countries. The IPO is expected to…
3 MIN READSpaceX is set to fly a heavily redesigned Starship on Friday after scrubbing a planned launch at the last minute, as the company prepares for a potential initial public offering. The new rocket will use dozens of new Raptor 3 engines and…
4 MIN READUC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science opened a new mixed-reality exhibit, “Yuutka” (The Place of the Acorn), after researchers and Ohlone youth overcame an interruption in National Science Foundation funding that followed the Trump…
3 MIN READA behavioral scientist says turning a habit into a repeatable routine depends on more than willpower—people also need the ability to perform the action and a clear prompt. An NPR “Life Kit” comic episode, created by cartoonist Vreni…
3 MIN READApple announced on Monday that John Ternus, a 50-year-old hardware engineering veteran who has spent nearly his entire career at the company, will become chief executive in September. Ternus replaces Tim Cook, who transformed Apple into a…
3 MIN READResearchers led by Steve Prabu of the University of Oxford have measured the instantaneous power of black hole jets for the first time. According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, the jets from Cygnus X-1, a relatively nearby black…
4 MIN READNASA's Psyche spacecraft will execute a close gravity-assist flyby of Mars on Friday, passing within 2,800 miles of the planet's surface at more than 12,000 miles per hour as it slingshots toward a rare metal asteroid in the outer asteroid…
3 MIN READThe Endocrine Society on Tuesday published a new name for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in The Lancet, renaming the condition polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) after 14 years of collaboration between experts and patients.…
3 MIN READNew guidance from the Endocrine Society and an article in The Lancet say the hormonal condition long known as polycystic ovary syndrome should now be called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS. Researchers and clinicians said…
3 MIN READThe National Science Foundation suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley in April, attorneys representing university scientists said, raising concerns the Trump administration is circumventing a federal court order that…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration opened a new chapter in government transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena Friday, releasing a trove of declassified videos, memos, and imagery that it hopes will let the public draw its own conclusions…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley in April, according to an attorney representing university scientists in a class action lawsuit. The suspensions occurred despite a federal court injunction…
3 MIN READThe Pentagon on Friday began releasing a new batch of declassified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, including decades-old State Department cables, FBI interviews, NASA transcripts and military sensor videos, as President Donald…
3 MIN READThe Pentagon began releasing a new batch of records and videos about unidentified anomalous phenomena on Friday, as President Donald Trump renewed attention on the topic and urged the public to “decide for themselves.” The files include…
3 MIN READThe Pentagon on Friday began releasing a new batch of declassified records related to unidentified aerial phenomena, including older State Department cables, FBI documents and NASA transcripts. The files describe cases the U.S. government…
3 MIN READA new image from NASA's Webb Space Telescope reveals the brilliant, glowing core of the spiral galaxy Messier 77, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cetus.
3 MIN READWOODS HOLE, Mass. — Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are breeding fast-growing kelp varieties that could one day fuel ships and aircraft without petroleum, but the emerging industry is caught in a commercial choke…
5 MIN READGreen cells grown from kelp are being developed into fast-growing strains that could eventually be processed into biofuel for ships and aircraft, researchers say. The work, funded earlier through a U.S. Department of Energy program, faces…
3 MIN READThe University of Vermont opened a new extreme-weather monitoring station in Lyndonville on Tuesday, part of a planned statewide network designed to give more localized data for flood and winter-storm predictions. UVM said the station, the…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon will soon release additional records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, fueling interest and skepticism amid ongoing efforts to declassify such material. Speaking at a White House event…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release what he called “very interesting” government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, reigniting public speculation about extraterrestrial life even as the former head of…
4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files uncovered by his administration, during remarks at a White House event celebrating NASA astronauts. He also previously directed federal…
3 MIN READBlue Hill Observatory and Science Center, about 15 miles south of Boston, says it has used largely unchanged instruments to record daily weather for 141 years. Staff and volunteers at the private nonprofit send observation summaries to…
3 MIN READNASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule returned to Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, nearly a month after carrying four astronauts around the moon on the first crewed lunar trip in more than half a century. The spacecraft’s crew, dubbed…
3 MIN READThe FDA said in a new analysis that the U.S. infant formula supply is safe, based on testing for heavy metals, pesticides and other potential contaminants. The review, conducted under the agency’s Operation Stork Speed project, tested more…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration fired members of the National Science Board, an independent panel that oversees the National Science Foundation, according to emails board members received. Board members said they were told their positions were…
3 MIN READArchaeologists at Pompeii have used artificial intelligence to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Pompeii Archaeological Park said. The image is based on remains found as people…
3 MIN READChile’s Atacama Desert is home to major astronomy projects, but scientists warn the region’s “darkest skies” face growing pressure from development and energy proposals near observatories. An appeal last year helped cancel a green power…
3 MIN READA humanoid robot from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, won a half-marathon race in Beijing on April 19, running faster than the human world record holder. The robot completed the 21-kilometer course in 50 minutes and 26 seconds,…
3 MIN READWhen Alina Dotsenko returned to her museum in Kherson after Ukrainian forces retook the southern city from Russian forces in late 2022, she walked into devastation. Thousands of artworks had vanished from the Kherson Art Museum, which…
5 MIN READAn 85-year-old French widow who married a retired U.S. soldier decades ago has returned to France after spending 16 days in federal immigration custody. Marie-Thérèse Ross was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on April 1…
4 MIN READMore than 5.83 million Haitians are expected to face acute levels of hunger between March and June, according to an international food-security report released Thursday, but officials warn that modest recent gains may soon be reversed by…
5 MIN READPalestinian siblings attempting to walk to school in the occupied West Bank found their path blocked by coiled barbed wire that Israeli settlers had installed overnight, according to video provided to the Associated Press. When students…
5 MIN READOpenAI said Thursday it is redirecting resources from consumer products toward corporate clients and a forthcoming enterprise-grade AI model, citing sharpening competition with rival Anthropic for business accounts. Chief Financial Officer…
4 MIN READDNA analysis has identified the remains found in a submerged Ford station wagon in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family who vanished in December 1958 while searching for Christmas greenery, the Hood River County Sheriff's Office…
4 MIN READLIMA, Peru — With 93% of ballots counted from Sunday's presidential first round, Keiko Fujimori led a crowded 35-candidate field Thursday with 17.06% of the vote, while a margin of fewer than 8,000 votes left the second runoff berth…
4 MIN READLONDON — Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally on Thursday expressed solidarity with Pope Leo XIV in calling for peace in the Middle East, standing by the pontiff as his advocacy drew public criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump.
3 MIN READTwo American families argued before Italy's Court of Cassation on Tuesday that a 2025 law curtailing citizenship by ancestry should not apply to people whose lineage predates its enactment, in a challenge that could restore an Italian…
5 MIN READThe European Commission on Wednesday threatened to order Meta Platforms to restore free access to WhatsApp for competing artificial intelligence chatbot providers, saying Meta's decision to charge rivals for the access amounted to the same…
4 MIN READMichigan officials say the state is using momentum from NASA’s Artemis II mission to seed its first Space Innovation Hub, aiming to connect and grow space-centered businesses across the state. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. is…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II astronauts asked the International Astronomical Union for permission to name two lunar craters, following a tradition that reaches back to Apollo 8. Commander Reid Wiseman’s crew proposed one crater be named “Carroll” after…
3 MIN READArtemis II’s four astronauts will fly past the moon on Monday after launching April 1 on NASA’s first crewed trip to the moon since 1972, aiming to beat Apollo 13’s record distance from Earth. The mission’s roughly six-hour flyby will…
3 MIN READCanadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said Artemis II crewmates and their families watched the film “Project Hail Mary” ahead of the mission’s lunar fly-around. Hansen praised the movie during a Canadian Space Agency televised event and said…
3 MIN READArtemis II astronauts on Monday completed a lunar flyby on a return trajectory that set a new distance record, surpassing Apollo 13’s farthest point. The mission, NASA’s first return to the moon since the Apollo era, included a total solar…
3 MIN READHOUSTON (AP) — The four Artemis II astronauts made history Tuesday by calling their friends aboard the International Space Station as they headed home from the moon, marking the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup, NASA said.
3 MIN READLa misión Artemis II, con cuatro astronautas, regresó a casa el lunes por la noche tras observar desde la órbita lunar la cara oculta de la Luna y establecer un nuevo récord de distancia. Durante un sobrevuelo que incluyó una interrupción…
4 MIN READA day after Artemis II completed a historic lunar flyaround, NASA released new photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew. The images include “Earthset,” showing Earth setting behind the moon, and another capturing a total solar eclipse from…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II crew is more than halfway to the moon, preparing for a fly-around that will send the Orion capsule farther than previous Apollo missions. But NASA says the mission’s toilet malfunction has resurfaced, and engineers suspect…
3 MIN READNearly a century after the first widely reported U.S. UFO sighting, the American story of “UFOs” has continued to evolve through government investigations, military radar and pilot reports, and waves of popular movies and TV. The saga…
3 MIN READFrom the first widely reported UFO sighting in 1947 to a 2024 Pentagon review that found no evidence of alien life, the American UFO story has repeatedly shifted between government investigation, public reports and pop-culture portrayals.
3 MIN READThe Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon but are dealing with another malfunction in the Orion capsule’s bathroom, mission officials said April 4. Until the toilet is fixed, Mission Control has instructed the crew to…
3 MIN READA widely syndicated Associated Press look at the American UFO saga traces how the subject has shifted from early reported sightings and Cold War investigations to military videos later labeled unidentified aerial phenomena and new…
4 MIN READThe Artemis II crew is more than halfway to the moon, but NASA said the Orion capsule’s toilet has malfunctioned again, requiring Mission Control to direct astronauts to use additional backup urine-collection bags. Debbie Korth, the Orion…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 3, 2026—NASA released the first downlinked images from the Artemis II astronauts on Friday, 1½ days into the mission’s lunar outbound trip. The photos show Earth curved in one window view and the full globe with…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines Thursday night and blazed toward the moon, breaking free of Earth orbit after spending about a day testing the Orion capsule. The translunar injection came 25 hours…
3 MIN READCuatro astronautas despegaron el miércoles desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy, iniciando Artemis II, el primer vuelo lunar tripulado de la NASA en décadas. La misión incluye tres estadounidenses y un canadiense a bordo del cohete Space…
3 MIN READA Long Beach aerospace firm, ExLabs, is scheduled to design a spacecraft launched in April 2028 to rendezvous with the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, aiming to make contact as the rock passes close to Earth in April 2029. The company, based…
3 MIN READLa NASA inició el miércoles los preparativos para lanzar el cohete Artemis II, la primera misión lunar tripulada de Estados Unidos en más de medio siglo, tras semanas de demoras por problemas técnicos. En Cabo Cañaveral, las autoridades…
3 MIN READNew DNA testing helped tie serial killer Ted Bundy to an unsolved Utah death from 1974, a Utah sheriff said April 1. The confirmation adds to a growing list of victims attributed to Bundy as forensic methods advance, long after Bundy was…
3 MIN READFinland’s north is hosting a polar scientific diving class that trains divers to study the flora and fauna under Arctic and Antarctic ice. The course, run at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, has participants descend through ice cracks…
3 MIN READNASA began the countdown Monday for Artemis II, a mission NASA says will send four astronauts on a lunar flyby and return without any planned stops. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s next lunar mission crew includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the moon on a mission…
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