SCIENCE & TECH

By Reuters NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth’s debut test flight this month.…

By Katie Spence On Aug. 8, 2021, scientists took a laser the size of three football fields and focused all 192 of its beams of light on a capsule of hydrogen…

By Reuters PARIS—The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked Western access…

By Reuters SEOUL—South Korea launched its first lunar orbiter on Friday as it doubles down on its space programs, aiming to land a probe on the moon by 2030. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter,…

By Naveen Athrappully The earth spun at its fastest speed on June 29, completing its shortest day and baffling scientists as to why this is happening. The earth finished a spin…

By Reuters WASHINGTON—Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a “black widow” that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of…

By Katie Spence News Analysis Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) reached a record 3 million in 2020, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). That’s an increase of 40 percent…

By Zachary Stieber The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on July 12 unveiled more images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, including one showing a cluster of galaxies. One of the…

By Reuters Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through…

By Reuters GENEVA—Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three subatomic particles never seen before as they work to unlock the building blocks of the universe, the European nuclear research centre CERN said…