SCIENCE & TECH

By Reuters WASHINGTON—Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial…

By Reuters WASHINGTON—About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova…

By Jack Phillips A total lunar eclipse known as a “blood moon” will appear around the world on Tuesday, Nov. 8, coming hours after polls open across the United States for…

By Andrew Moran and Emel Akan News Analysis “The bird is freed,” Elon Musk posted on Twitter on Thursday evening after finalizing his purchase of the company. After a monthslong battle with…

By Jack Phillips Elon Musk said Friday he’s forming a council to oversee Twitter’s content moderation decisions a day after he acquired the firm for $44 billion. The Tesla CEO said that Twitter…

By Mimi Nguyen Ly The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday began an independent study on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), colloquially referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with a…

Aims to ‘support GM’s goal of 1 million units of EV capacity in North America by the end of 2025’ By Victoria Kelly-Clark General Motors (GM) has signed a landmark agreement…

By Reuters The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit—the first time humanity has altered the motion of a…

By Reuters WASHINGTON—Unlike the lonely sun, about half the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are in a long-term committed relationship with another star, orbiting each another in a celestial marriage…

By Reuters STOCKHOLM—Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds and that…