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Technicians prepare the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spacecraft before its 2004 launch at Cape Canaveral

NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

NASA confirmed Swift’s atmospheric re-entry over North Sumatra on November 4, ending a mission that observed more than 2,000 gamma-ray bursts.

November 5, 2026

by Amanda Graham

Amelia Earhart's red Lockheed Vega 5B monoplane on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

The Purdue-backed team that called its evidence "very strong" says the Taraia Object in Nikumaroro's lagoon was most likely a collection of large trees, not Amelia Earhart's Electra. Its steel-tube find and castaway theory survive, but no outside specialist is

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Image accompanying Euronews reporting on the end of leap seconds in 2027

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

Global timekeepers have voted to end leap-second adjustments from May 20, 2027. The new rule allows

Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13

NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory image of a solar flare illustrating space weather threats StormWall aims to deflect

Scientists Design a ‘Storm Wall’ in Space to Shield Earth From Solar Chaos

A Boston University engineer has published a peer-reviewed design for a six-spacecraft system that could cut the intensity of a major geomagnetic storm in half — the first serious proposal to actively

June 3, 2026

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Blue Origin New Glenn rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in 2026

Blue Origin CEO Vows New Glenn Will Fly Again in 2026, But NASA Warns Launchpad Rebuild Could Take Until 2028

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp says the company will fly its New Glenn rocket before the end of 2026 despite last week's catastrophic pad explosion, as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman warns launchpad

June 2, 2026

News·Science·Technology

Typhoon Chanmi weather radar track toward Kyushu Japan June 2026

Typhoon Chanmi Forces 200,000 to Evacuate in Japan’s Kagoshima as Storm Targets Kyushu

Typhoon Chanmi has triggered Level-4 evacuation advisories for more than 200,000 residents in Kagoshima Prefecture as it tracks northeast toward Kyushu, leaving 16 injured and 47,000 homes without power across Japan.

June 2, 2026

News·Science

Aerial view of dense forest canopy representing Earth's estimated three trillion trees

Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars. The Number Hiding Inside That Fact Is Far More Alarming.

The comparison has been circulating for years, turning up on classroom walls and science podcasts in equal measure: there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way.

May 31, 2026

News·Science

Close-up of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint in lunar regolith during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969

Apollo’s Footprints on the Moon Will Survive a Million Years. Here’s What Science Actually Says.

The claim is one of the most satisfying facts in popular science: the bootprints left by the Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969 will still be sitting there a million

May 31, 2026

Science·Technology

SpaceCamp 1986 film theatrical poster featuring Lea Thompson Joaquin Phoenix and cast in NASA jumpsuits

SpaceCamp at 40: How Hollywood’s Most Cursed 1986 Film Became a Cultural Time Capsule Worth Revisiting

Forty years ago this June, a family adventure film opened in American theaters and vanished almost immediately, swallowed by grief, bad timing, and the still-raw wound of a national tragedy. The film

May 31, 2026

Entertainment·Movies·Science·Technology

NOAA GOES-19 satellite imagery showing the fireball flash detected over Cape Cod Bay on May 30, 2026, when a meteor exploded over Massachusetts

Meteor Explodes Over Massachusetts, Unleashing Sonic Boom Heard From Delaware to Montreal

BOSTON — The afternoon sky above New England was calm and unremarkable on Saturday when the ground began to shake and a thunderclap no storm could explain rolled across Massachusetts, Rhode Island,

May 31, 2026

News·Science

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket standing at Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes in Fireball During Cape Canaveral Test

An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded in a fireball during a hotfire test at Cape Canaveral on Thursday night, with no injuries, in a costly setback for Jeff Bezos's race

May 29, 2026

Business·News·Science

NIST physicist Stephan Schlamminger examines the torsion balance used to measure the gravitational constant Big G

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

For three and a half centuries, the number that governs how every apple falls and every planet wheels around the sun has remained a riddle. Now, after ten years bent over a

May 27, 2026

Astronomy·Science·Technology

A super Blue Moon rises over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on August 30, 2023

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

A rare calendar Blue Moon, the second full moon of May 2026, will rise on May 30 and reach full phase on May 31, accompanied by Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn in

May 27, 2026

Astronomy·News·Science

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NASA’s Swift Observatory Re-enters Over Indonesia After Nearly 22 Years in Space

Earhart Search Team Says Lagoon Object Was Likely Trees, Not Her Plane

Leap Seconds End in May 2027, but Your Clock Won’t Jump an Hour

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

Scientists Design a ‘Storm Wall’ in Space to Shield Earth From Solar Chaos

Blue Origin CEO Vows New Glenn Will Fly Again in 2026, But NASA Warns Launchpad Rebuild Could Take Until 2028

Typhoon Chanmi Forces 200,000 to Evacuate in Japan’s Kagoshima as Storm Targets Kyushu

Earth Has More Trees Than the Milky Way Has Stars. The Number Hiding Inside That Fact Is Far More Alarming.

Apollo’s Footprints on the Moon Will Survive a Million Years. Here’s What Science Actually Says.

SpaceCamp at 40: How Hollywood’s Most Cursed 1986 Film Became a Cultural Time Capsule Worth Revisiting

Meteor Explodes Over Massachusetts, Unleashing Sonic Boom Heard From Delaware to Montreal

Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Explodes in Fireball During Cape Canaveral Test

Newton’s Gravitational Constant Still Defies Physicists 340 Years Later as NIST Decade-Long Experiment Deepens the Mystery

Rare Blue Moon will rise on May 31 as the second full moon of May 2026 joins a four-planet sky show

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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