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What's next for SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after its historic debut flight?

SpaceX's "V3" Starship megarocket did pretty well on its debut flight last week. What's next for the powerful next-gen vehicle?

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Most powerful 'ghost particle' ever may have come from a cosmic particle accelerator fed by a black hole

The most energetic "ghost particle" neutrino ever detected may have been blasted at Earth by blazars, suggesting that these events and their black hole engines are powerful cosmic particle accelerators.

Space

500-million-year-old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place.

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In 1980, a physicist studying a thin clay layer found an iridium spike, and it wasn’t just trace metal: It became one of the biggest clues behind the dinosaurs’ extinction

In a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on our planet but frequently found in meteorites. This intriguing evidence points to a cataclysmic asteroid strike that likely led to the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million…

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Surya Grahan 2026 Date and Time: When will this year's second solar eclipse be visible in India? Check date, timings and sutak details

Surya Grahan kab hai: The second Surya Grahan of 2026 occurs on August 12. This annular solar eclipse will create a Ring of Fire effect. Skywatchers in parts of Europe, Canada, and Russia can witness this event. However, the eclipse will not be visible in India. Therefore, no sutak period…

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Rare earth, gas supply, aircraft parts: What’s inside the new IIP calculus as India revises base year

India is updating its Index of Industrial Production. The new series will use 2022-23 as the base year, replacing the old 2011-12 base. This revision will include new items and sectors, offering a more accurate picture of industrial output. The updated index aims to capture emerging industries and technological progress.

The Economic Times

Steven Spielberg: AI is not a substitute for the soul

The Hollywood director has explained where he ‘draws the line’ with the technology.

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Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a single slow asteroid impact

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study suggests.

Space

Humans are going to the Moon. Cameras and massive seven-foot drones will help them arrive safely

Cameras will help researchers study the Moon's surface ahead of the planned Moon Base, including four seven-foot-wide camera drones

Digital Camera World

Strong El Niño may stretch to 2028 as UN warns climate change to smash heat records in next 5 years

Climate scientists have warned that a "whole range of extreme weather events" are brewing, as a strong El Niño coincides with global warming.

Euronews

King’s garden inspired by the planet Venus to open to visitors at Windsor Castle

The former East Terrace Garden has been renamed, transformed and designed around the petal-shaped orbit of the earth’s neighbouring planet.

Evening Standard

Stunning garden designed by the King to open to visitors at Windsor Castle for first time

The site was once Charles II’s bowling green

Evening Standard

Think it’s hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.

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Think it's hot now? World headed for repeated heat record shocks, warns UN

New United Nations climate projections reveal Earth will likely surpass the safe climate threshold repeatedly in the next five years. The hottest year on record is expected to be broken. The Arctic will overheat, and the Amazon faces dangerous drought and wildfires. These events will bring more extreme weather, impacting…

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Best Times and Places to Watch the Rare Blue Micromoon Rising This Weekend Before It Vanishes Until 2053

The rare Blue Apogee Micromoon appears on 30 May, glowing golden-orange near the horizon in a celestial event not seen again until 2053.

The Independent UK

Think it's hot now? The next five years will smash records, UN says

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures

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What Shiva Says Before A Soul Leaves The Body

For centuries, people across India have believed that dying in Kashi is not an ordinary death but a direct path to liberation. It is said that in the final moments of life, when the soul struggles between fear and freedom, Lord Shiva himself appears and whispers the sacred Tarak Mantra…

The Economic Times

Red Balloon launches India's first commercial near-space balloon

On Wednesday, the company's VISTA platform ascended nearly 25 km above Earth from Vijayawada as part of "Mission SANA", carrying payloads from seven national and international partners, including propulsion technology demonstrations, biological experiment systems, onboard computing platforms and navigation validation systems. The company said all payload missions were completed successfully.

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World's smallest deployable operational optical ground station proves capability in successful trials

OXFORD, England, May 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Archangel Lightworks, the laser communications company, has successfully completed field trials of the TERRA-M, the world's smallest deployable operational optical ground station, proving its capability. The news was warmly welcomed by Liz Lloyd, the UK Space Minister, and the trials were funded by…

The Independent UK

How to catch this week’s rare blue moon event ― that won’t happen again until 2028

But don’t be disappointed if it’s not bright turquoise

International Business Times

The Cow Is a Bioreactor. Ashton Ostrander Is Building a Better One

The Maia Farms co-founder spent six months reverse-engineering a cow. What he found is now quietly reshaping how global food brands think about protein.

Inverse

'Across The Unknown' Just Got A Huge Upgrade — With A Beloved 'Star Trek' Ship

Across the Unknown, 2026's real-time strategy game based on Star Trek: Voyager, just introduced a beloved ship in a brand new update for the game.

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“Will Actively Hunt People”: 65 Scary Science Facts That Might Change How You See The World

We should all strive to be curious, open-minded, and seek to get as close to the objective truth as possible. However, this doesn’t change the fact that, well, the truth can often be pretty uncomfortable. You need a lot of emotional resilience to live with the knowledge about how the…

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Laser beams blast through the cosmos | Space photo of the day for May 27, 2026

Fear not, these lasers are just doing science.

Space

NASA will reveal the Artemis 3 astronauts on June 9

On June 9, NASA will reveal the astronauts who will fly on the Artemis 3 docking mission in Earth orbit next year.

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