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Our 2026 skywatching guide includes a total solar eclipse, a "blood moon" and a festive supermoon. Here are the dates you need to know.

Constellations, planets, a waxing moon and more grace the night sky this New Year's Eve.

Federal authorities in North Carolina announced charges against an 18-year-old, who they say was planning to carry out a New Year's Eve terror attack in support of ISIS. CBS News homeland security correspondent Nicole Sganga reports.

Stefon Diggs, the New England Patriots' wide receiver, spoke to the media for the first time since it was revealed he is facing criminal charges.

Paul Ovenden argues time spent discussing political prisoner was symptom of government struggling to focusEfforts to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah regularly distracted Keir Starmer’s government from focusing on bread-and-butter domestic political issues, according to one of the prime minister’s closest fo…

A new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights an enormous region of space where stars are actively being born. The image centers on N159, a massive cloud made mostly of cold hydrogen gas. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe and the primary building block of stars. This cloud lies about…

Added to the Linux kernel earlier this year was the new X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig option to enable compiler optimizations for the local/native CPU in use when building the Linux kernel. In effect about ensuring that the "-march=native" compiler flag is set for the kernel build for optimizing the Linux …

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing clues of a dramatic cosmic history. The star, which quietly orbits a dormant black hole, appears to be spinning far faster than it should—and its internal “starquakes” suggest…

Moss may look insignificant, but it can carry a hidden forensic fingerprint. Because different moss species thrive in very specific micro-environments, tiny fragments can reveal exactly where a person has been. Researchers reviewing 150 years of cases found moss has helped solve crimes across multip…

Weight loss restored healthy metabolism in both young and mid-aged mice, but the brain told a different story. In mid-aged animals, slimming down actually worsened inflammation in a brain region tied to appetite and energy balance. While this inflammation eventually subsided, brain inflammation has …

Live Science spoke with Dr. Joe Alexander of NTT Research about "digital twins" and the development of an autonomous device for acute cardiac care.

Demonstrations sparked by Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural provinces, with at least seven people killed

Venezuela is open to reaching an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, according to President Nicolás Maduro

Have you ever wished you could enable interactive delete,
by default, in kubectl? Or maybe, you'd like to have custom aliases defined,
but not necessarily generate hundreds of them manually?
Look no further. SIG-CLI
has been working hard to add user preferences to kubectl,
and we are happy to announ…

The Kubernetes community continues to advance security best practices
by reducing reliance on long-lived credentials.
Following the successful alpha release in Kubernetes v1.33,
Service Account Token Integration for Kubelet Credential Providers
has now graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.34,
bringing…

You’ve probably heard people say it’s impossible to go back and correct some error from the past. To those people, you should raise a middle finger in defiance (they are miserable, after all), and then point them to the tale of Pebble’s unlikely revival. The smartwatch pioneer’s return was a surpris…

Foreign minister says Iranian military is on standby after US president said he would act if demonstrators were killedDonald Trump has threatened to intervene in Iran if its government kills demonstrators, prompting warnings from senior Iranian officials that any American interference would cross a …

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.

Ringing in 2026 on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’s CNN special

As families hunt for the perfect gift this holiday season, soaring prices are dampening some of the holiday magic. New analysis from Groundwork Collaborative, The Century Foundation, and AFT finds that many of this season’s most popular holiday gifts are significantly more expensive under President …

At the start of the year, we outlined six key predictions shaping how biofuels markets would evolve in 2025. Now that new mandates have taken effect and policy signals have clarified, we can look back and evaluate how well those predictions aligned with real-world developments.