Margaret Hamilton, the pioneering computer scientist whose work helped guide NASA’s Apollo astronauts to the Moon, has died at the age of 90. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced her…

STOCKHOLM — French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries showing how tiny differences between mirror-image molecules can…

TRIPOLI, Libya — A huge fireball streaked across the night sky over Tripoli and parts of western Libya on October 4, startling residents with a bright flash and a powerful…

Starship Flight 14 reached orbit on Monday, September 28, but the achievement came with two decisions that changed the course of the mission. One of the spacecraft’s six engines shut…

Latest update: Eclipse now underway Earth’s lighter penumbral shadow began crossing the Moon at 9:24 p.m. EDT Thursday. The more dramatic partial phase begins at 10:34 p.m. EDT, followed by…

A deep partial lunar eclipse will unfold overnight on August 27–28, 2026, putting about 96.2% of the Moon's visible disk area inside Earth's darkest shadow at maximum and potentially producing…

Updated: August 23, 2026 Skywatchers have another major celestial event approaching just over two weeks after the August 12 total solar eclipse. A deep partial lunar eclipse will unfold on…