After 27 years of service, NASA astronaut Suni Williams retired from the agency, effective Dec. 27, 2025. Williams completed three missions aboard the International Space Station, setting numerous human spaceflight records throughout her career. “Suni Willi
NASA’s Day of Remembrance Honors Fallen Heroes of Exploration
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NASA will observe its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday, Jan. 22, which includes commemorating the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. The event is traditionally held every year on the fourth Thursday of January, as all thre
Beijing slams EU’s ‘naked protectionism’ over Chinese gear phase-out – media
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Beijing has slammed the EU’s reported plans to phase out Chinese-made equipment in critical infrastructure, Reuters has reported Read Full Article at RT.com
Ukraine must end electricity and heating subsidies and share taxes more fairly to unlock more funding, IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva says Read Full Article at RT.com
NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, are ready to be encapsulated inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing in this early January 2026 p
The New York–Newark–Jersey City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which spans 23 counties across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has a population of about 19.9 million, is pictured at approximately 3:29 a.m. local time Dec. 20, 2025, from the Inter
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39
F1 announces Grammy award-winning artist as 2026 British GP headline act
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Formula 1 has confirmed that world-renowned DJ David Guetta will headline the 2026 British Grand Prix. Taking place on the Thursday evening, the performance will form part of the Frenchman's global MONOLITH tour next summer, and will also be his only UK perf
Oscar Piastri insists McLaren partnership with Lando Norris is 'better than ever'
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Oscar Piastri has insisted that the relationship with his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris is «probably better than it has been» amid the closely contested championship fight.Both McLaren drivers are fighting for their first drivers' championship. W
NASCAR sets parameters for new Cup OEMs in rules update
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NASCAR issued a series of technical changes in a scheduled rule book update on Friday afternoon that included which tracks would formally utilize the 750-horsepower tapered spacer and language that paves the way for an additional manufacturer.This was previou
Zak Brown: McLaren won't let emotion derail F1 title fight
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McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has confirmed the Woking outfit will not let emotion change its approach in the drivers' championship fight despite the rising pressure. McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, along with Red Bull's Max Verstappen, are al
JR Motorsports to attempt 2026 Daytona 500 with Justin Allgaier
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JR Motorsports (JRM), co-owned by NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. and sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller, is going Cup racing again next year.The highly successful NASCAR Xfinity Series team (soon to be rebranded as the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series)
Check out Pete Buttigieg's scathing takedown of JD Vance
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Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was interviewed on Friday at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. When asked by The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg whether he believed Vice President JD Vance to be a “fascist,” Buttig
Trump is losing it over looming House vote to release Epstein files
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President Donald Trump is panicking about an impending House vote on releasing the Epstein files.
In a Truth Social post Friday morning, Trump called the Republicans who plan to vote in support of the release «weak,» «soft,» and &laqu
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The latest sham investigation by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, based on sham invocations of mortgage fraud, just got referred to the Department of Justice so that Mr. Weaponization Working Group himself, Ed Martin, can likely kick off a
The 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station’s Harmony module in this July 23, 2025, image.
This image shows two massive galaxy clusters. The vast number of galaxies and foreground stars in the image were captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in near-infrared light. Glowing, hot X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory appear
Glass Flora and Fauna Flutter in the Delicate Work of Kate Clements
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Clements is drawn to glass as «a material defined by its capacity to hold tension.»
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70+ Artists Transform Matchboxes for Joy Machine’s ‘General Strike’
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More than 70 artists across North America respond to a single object: an oversized wooden matchbox.
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Radiant Sculptures by Arghavan Khosravi Meditate on Subconscious Terrain
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Arghavan Khosravi makes an inward turn in her new body of work.
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Layers Upon Layers Root in History in Li Songsong’s Impasto Paintings
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Wide, impasto layers of oil paint cloak Li Songsong's canvases, creating a cacophony of color and texture.
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A Skydiver Appears to Fall from the Sun in a Stunning Image
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After six momentous leaps, Gabriel C. Brown and Andrew McCarthy completed their mission.
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IBM unveils two new quantum processors — including one that offers a blueprint for fault-tolerant quantum computing by 2029
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IBM has released two new complex quantum processors alongside a new framework that would allow us to track the first demonstration of quantum advantage.
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has snapped a striking shot of a skydiving YouTuber perfectly aligned with the fiery surface of the sun. The unlikely image, dubbed «The Fall of Icarus,» required meticulous planning to pull off.
Quantum computing will make cryptography obsolete. But computer scientists are working to make them unhackable.
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When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.
