Zoom in / A seaborne version of the commercial Ceres 1 rocket lifts off near the coast of Rizhao, a city of 3 million in China’s Shandong province. Welcome to Rocket Report Release 6.46! It looks like next week we’ll be covering the crew test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and the fourth test flight … Read more
Update 31 May 2024: Bungie released a statement after “part” of Destiny 2’s The Final Shape expansion was “accidentally released live” on the PS5 streaming service. The studio admitted that spoilers were being shared online and that “a small group of players” had access to the campaign, collections, echoes and “other information about the rewards”. … Read more
Unlock editor summary for free Rula Khalaf, editor of the FT, picks her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eurozone inflation rose for the first time this year, adding to concerns about how slowly the European Central Bank will cut interest rates if price pressures remain high. The 2.6 percent rise in consumer prices in … Read more
Sign up for our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up for our free IndyTech newsletter ejust six seconds, in a factory on the northern outskirts of Stockholm, a top-secret printer spews out sheets worth thousands of euros each. Each contains 108 miniature solar cells that will soon find their way … Read more
image source, Matthew Sherman Image caption, Mr. Cooper’s discovery was reassembled in New York before 2 hours The first stegosaurus skeleton to go on the market will fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by accident, thousands of kilometers to the west during a man’s birthday walk, writes Stephen … Read more
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket may take to the skies for a fourth time on June 5, primarily to evaluate the second stage’s reusable heat shield as the vehicle attempts to safely re-enter the atmosphere for the first time. CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that “There are a lot of hard … Read more
The researchers found that elusive intermediate-mass black holes can form in dense star clusters containing anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of tightly packed stars, called “globular clusters.” An intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. They are heavier than solar-mass black holes, which have a mass range between 10 … Read more
The early universe contained far fewer miniatures black holes than previously thought, making the origin of the missing matter in our cosmos even more of a mystery, a new study suggests. Miniature or primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes thought to have formed in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. … Read more
Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech New research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit around 40 Eridani A, attributing the detected signals to the surface activity of the star. A planet believed … Read more
How to do it is Slate’s sex advice column. I have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. This is anonymous! Dear How to do it, My wife and I have been married for 18 years and together for 22. We are happy, successful, have children, the white picket fence, everything. I had … Read more