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CBS News

Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired off its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday, launching a classified spy satellite in the last hurrah of a storied family of rockets dating back to the dawn of the space age.

Space.com

“Higgs’ work has and will continue to shape the field for many years to come and is possibly the largest success story of 21st-century theoretical physics.” Comments (0). A man in a suit stands in front of an image of the Large Hadron Collider.

Space.com

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showcased the resulting photos, taken with the organization’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) series. For example, the imager on the GOES-16 satellite tracked the moon’s …

CNN

Antarctica is a prime site for hunting meteorites. Terrestrial stones appear plentiful in a blue ice area during the Chilean Antarctic Institute’s 2022 field mission to Union Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains. José Jorquera ( …

Space.com

The startup Max Space has big plans for its habitat tech, which will get its first in-space test in 2026. Comments (0). Artist’s illustration of a white inflatable habitat on the moon. Artist’s illustration of a Max Space expandable habitat on the moon …

Space.com

The first spacecraft to explore beyond the solar system started spouting gibberish late last year. Now, NASA knows why. Comments (0). A spacecraft with a white disk and a long metal bar against a purplish background. An illustration shows Voyager 1 in …

Phys.Org

Electrons—the infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms—continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, physicists at Princeton University have pushed the boundaries of our …

The New York Times

The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.

BBC News

In a world-first, scientists had a “conversation” with a whale. Now, researchers are trying to find out what they are actually saying. A growling “throp” noise emanates from the research vessel’s underwater speaker. A humpback breaks away from its …

Space.com

It’s been 25 years since a total solar eclipse passed through Europe, but on Aug. 12, 2026, totality will come to the extreme northwest and southwest of the continent. Visible in Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, the 2026 total solar …