Blue Moon 2026: An extremely rare micromoon rises tonight
A rare Blue Moon, the second full moon in May, will also be a “micromoon” near its farthest point from Earth.
WHO chief visits epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo as cases outpace response
World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is in eastern Congo’s Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response
3 climbers who fell near treacherous pass on Alaska’s Mount McKinley are dead; 1 rescued
Three climbers on Alaska’s Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest peak have died, a Latvian mountaineering group announced Friday.
Oscar-winning Star Wars editor Marcia Lucas dies aged 80
The film editor and ex-wife of director George Lucas was widely recognised as a pivotal creative force behind the original space trilogy.
Utility companies want to pay you to generate power for the electrical grid
The Wrights turned their Texas home from a solar-powered standalone into part of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) network, which returns excess energy to the
Trump attacks artists dropping out of US Freedom 250 concert and mulls appearing himself
Performers Young MC, Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer Martina McBride raised concerns the event will be political.
‘No-one feels safe now’: Residents of Romanian city hit by drone share fears
People have just begun returning to check on their homes in the block that was hit early on Friday morning.
Ebola spread in DR Congo ‘alarming’, charity warns, as WHO chief visits worst-hit area
Médicins Sans Frontières says that never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration.
US, UK and Australia to develop underwater drones through defence pact
Unmanned undersea vehicles will be developed under the AUKUS defence pact, US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth said.
Hidden force behind Star Wars films dies
The Oscar-winning editor of the original Star Wars films, Marcia Lucas, has died aged 80.
Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. After the backlash, it quietly removed four.
Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four. The revised version names only
A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.
Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company
Senior Sri Lankan monk suspended over child sex abuse allegation
Pallegama Hemarathana is accused of abusing an 11-year-old girl in a Buddhist temple in 2022.
Rescuers free four more men from flooded Laos cave, two still missing
Five of seven men who entered cave seeking gold are now out after being trapped for 10 days.