The 1908 Tunguska event flattened ~2,000 sq km of Siberian forest and left no crater. The reason is an airburst: a stony asteroid that disintegrated several kilometres up. What the evidence shows, what is still argued, and why a century-old blast still drives planetary defence.
A team led by Thomas Evans-Soma of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg has published observations of the exoplanet WASP-121b that complicate the existing picture of how chemistry moves through an ultra-hot atmosphere.
Najib Razak, the Malaysian prime minister who chaired 1MDB, is serving 12 years in Kajang Prison after investigators traced roughly $681 million from the state fund into his personal AmBank accounts — part of a $4.5 billion global kleptocracy case.
NASA's Artemis site selection process surveyed the entire lunar South Pole and identified just nine candidate landing regions, each about 15 kilometers across — a sliver of ground smaller than greater Los Angeles on a body the size of Africa and Australia combined.
Australian model Miranda Kerr surrendered roughly $8 million in jewelry — including a heart-shaped pink diamond from Jho Low — to U.S. investigators in 2017 after the gifts were traced to funds stolen from Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.
Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft launches on an air-dropped Pegasus XL from Kwajalein Atoll later this month to rendezvous with the 21-year-old observatory, whose orbit is decaying faster than expected after a run of solar activity.
Bowhead whales live past 200 years and almost never get cancer. A 2025 study from the University of Rochester points to CIRBP, a cold-activated protein that helps the whales' cells repair DNA damage with unusual precision.
The fireball was visible in broad daylight. Roughly 200 witnesses across Georgia and South Carolina saw it streak across the sky that afternoon, bright enough…
Take two pairs of entangled photons that were generated separately and never interacted.
At its record 692,000 km/h, Parker Solar Probe would cover the distance to the Moon in a little over half an hour, against Apollo 11's three days. But that peak is reached only at the Sun, flung by gravity, and Apollo was slow by design. What the comparison really shows.
In March 2025, an Old Bailey jury convicted six Bulgarians of running one of the largest foreign intelligence operations ever prosecuted in Britain — a surveillance ring operating from a Norfolk guesthouse, taking instructions from a fugitive Austrian executive believed to be hiding in Moscow.
In 2017, Reuters reporters wired $900 to a Tennessee broker and legally received two human heads and a cervical spine — exposing a federal loophole that still governs America's body-parts industry today.
Signed in 1967 by the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom, the Outer Space Treaty bans any nation from owning the Moon — but created no court, police force or referee to enforce the rule. Six decades later, that gap is the central problem in space law.
Since 1980, Dennis Hope has sold more than 2.5 million lunar acres at around $20 each, building a 46-year novelty empire on a single loophole in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty — one that international lawyers say does not exist.
Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five are still standing — but after more than five decades of unfiltered solar UV, proton bombardment, and 600 thermal cycles between 120°C and minus 170°C, the dyes have almost certainly broken down, leaving the most famous banners in history as bleached white cloth.
Buzz Aldrin saw the American flag at Tranquility Base get knocked flat by the lunar module's ascent engine plume the instant Apollo 11 lifted off, meaning the first banner planted on the Moon stood upright for less than 22 hours.
