IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The U.S. is enhancing its space strategy with an innovative orbital aircraft carrier developed by Gravitics. 🔒 This platform allows for direct satellite launches from space, improving agility and response time. 🛰️ The carrier provides a protective environment for satellites, shieldin…

The European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is poised to reshape the global forest product supply chain. However, as the implementation date gets closer and closer, many exporting countries aren’t ready. This unpreparedness could create a shift in trade flows, opening the door for compliant p…

Space is getting dangerously crowded. More than 50,000 pieces of debris larger than 10 centimetres are currently hurtling around Earth at breakneck speeds, turning Earth orbits into veritable minefields. Dead satellites, rocket fragments, and collision debris pose such a serious threat that the Inte…

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Researchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the magnetic mysteries of a "blazar" billions of light-years from Earth. The new findings also shed light on the origin of elusive "ghost particles."

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On 15 July 2025, with the splashdown of the Dragon capsule off the coast of California, the Ignis mission ended after a 20-day space journey. ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, during nearly 230 orbits around Earth, completed about 120 hours of tel…

Combining powerful imaging, perturbational screening, and machine learning, researchers uncover new human host factors that alter Ebola’s ability to infect.

This close-up view of the United States flag plate on NASA's Perseverance was acquired on June 28, 2025 (the 1,548th day, or sol, of its mission to Mars), by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) imager on the turret at the end of the rover's Mars robotic arm.

The same facility that provided valuable testing for NASA missions to low-Earth orbit and the Moon is now helping the agency prepare to launch the first rocket from Mars.

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Watch the replay of the MetOp-SG-A1 and Copernicus Sentinel-5 pre-launch media briefing. This session provides information about these two missions. Speakers include:


Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA

Phil Evans, Director-General at Eumetsat
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Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission –  has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou …

The wait is finally over. Today, right now, OpenAI is releasing its latest and greatest large language model, GPT-5, and making it available through the ChatGPT interface. According to OpenAI’s leaders, the model brings unprecedented powers of reasoning, brings vibe coding to a new level, is better …

“Highest 2 Lowest” reunites Spike Lee with Denzel Washington, but the director’s Colin Kaepernick documentary has been canceled due to creative differences.

The U.S. government has been holding discussions on taking an equity stake in the chip maker Intel, Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.Why it matters: A deal would be another turn by the Trump administration away from laissez-faire policies and toward state capitalism, as it …

The fight over the future direction of the Democratic Party has begun.The first battlefield is the trendy center-left "Abundance" movement. A growing number of left-wing politicians and thinkers are labeling it a clever rebrand by the party's corporate wing, which they blame for driving working-clas…

Pakistani officials say they are expanding rescue and relief operations after flash floods killed more than 220 people in a single northwest district and destroyed homes, roads, and businesses

The U.S. government has deployed the National Guard and the Marines to brutalize communities trying to stand up for their neighbors. But across the nation, people are bravely standing strong and showing the power in community organizing.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has delivered one of its sharpest panoramas yet, revealing sweeping Martian vistas from the “Falbreen” site. Taken under unusually clear skies, the mosaic captures distant hills, geologic boundaries, and a mysterious rock perched on a sand ripple. Scientists are intrigued b…

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Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission –  has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou …

The crossover fun don't stop: within the pages of 'DC/Marvel,' you get Static and Ms. Marvel, Doctor Strange and Constantine, and more.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) confirms the launch of the first two LEO-PNT satellites is planned from second half of December 2025, on a Rocket Lab Electron launcher vehicle, from New Zealand. The LEO-PNT in-orbit demonstrator mission is a pioneer mission for Europe that will advance satellite nav…

In today’s best news: the girls are back — and by the girls, I mean Anna Faris and Regina Hall, who are officially returning for Scary Movie 6.