Earth recently captured a small asteroid known as 2024 PT5, temporarily transforming it into a second moon. This rare event was confirmed by astronomers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Complutense University of Madrid, offering a glimpse into these elusive “mini-moons” that Earth occasionally holds within its orbit. However, Earth’s newly acquired companion is
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ESA’s Proba-3 mission, designed to create solar eclipses in space to study the Sun’s corona, has officially left European soil and is en route to its launch site in India. This dual-spacecraft mission departed from Redwire Space’s facility in Kruibeke, Belgium, to travel to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai, where the final launch
An unprecedented nine-day tsunami following a significant rockslide in Greenland’s Dickson Fjord was recently recorded by the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a collaborative mission by NASA and France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). The event, which took place in September 2023, saw a unique pattern of seismic waves resonate around the
The business secretary will next week hold talks with dozens of private sector bosses as the government contends with a significant corporate backlash to Labour’s first fiscal event in nearly 15 years. Sky News has learnt that executives have been invited to join a conference call on Monday with Jonathan Reynolds, in what will represent
The Crown Prosecution Service’s special crime division is considering whether to charge MP Mike Amesbury after CCTV showed the politician punching a man in the street. While the police are responsible for collecting evidence, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is responsible for whether someone should be charged with a crime. Cheshire Police has now handed
Can the influence of celebrities sway voters when it comes to the US election? With many of the biggest music and movie stars in the world backing her, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will certainly be hoping so. Democrats have long enjoyed a celebrity advantage, which has only grown during Republican Donald Trump‘s rise in politics.
Photo: RWE Rivian will power its DC fast-charging network with renewable energy company RWE’s Champion Wind farm in Texas. The two companies just signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for electricity from RWE’s repowered Champion Wind in Nolan and Mitchell counties, west of Abilene. The 127-megawatt (MW) Champion Wind is getting new turbine nacelles
Nishad Singh, former director of Engineering at FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, left, and Claire Watanabe, former senior executive at FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrive at court in New York, on Oct. 30, 2024. Mackenzie Sigalos | CNBC Former FTX executive Nishad Singh was sentenced to time served and three years of supervised release on Wednesday,
The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing and tax rises announced in the budget. While there was no panic, there had been concern about the scale of borrowing and changes to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules. At the
When they made America truly great its backbone was forged in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The steel for 80% of Manhattan’s skyscrapers, many of the US Navy’s battleships, and even the entire San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, all came from its blast furnaces in the hills north of Philadelphia. Its mammoth steel plants stretched for almost five
In this article AAPL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Apple CEO Tim Cook (C) joins customers during Apple’s iPhone 16 launch in New York on September 20, 2024. Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images Apple’s second-largest division after the iPhone has turned into a $100 billion a year business that Wall Street
Elon Musk has snapped at Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson over his critical comments about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving program. Zoox is an autonomous driving company that is now part of Amazon. It has made some impressive progress as of late – leading miles per disengagement data by a wide margin: It looks like this
In this article ZE594-CN TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT New cars, among them new China-built electric vehicles of the company BYD, are seen parked in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, October 24, 2024. Yves Herman | Reuters Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD reported third-quarter revenue that topped that of behemoth rival Tesla for
Ramona Shelburne, ESPN Senior WriterOct 31, 2024, 08:29 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News Open Extended Reactions FOR MOST OF his 13 years in the NBA Bradley Beal has had a good sense of who he is as a player. An elite shooter and scorer.
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at a company event on artificial intelligence technologies in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Dimas Ardian | Bloomberg | Getty Images Microsoft‘s better-than-expected earnings report wasn’t enough to prevent the stock’s steepest selloff in two years, as investors instead
First things first: don’t panic. What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s gone down about as badly as any budget in recent years, save for Liz Truss’s mini-budget. The pound is weaker. Government bond yields (essentially, the interest rate the exchequer pays on
Oct 24, 2024, 09:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Robson Conceicao makes the first defense of his WBC junior lightweight title in a rematch against O’Shaquie Foster on Saturday night at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, in Verona, New York (ESPN+, 5:50 p.m. ET). Conceicao (19-2-1, 9 KOs) defeated Foster by a controversial split decision
Emergency responders are searching for bodies inside stranded cars and buildings following deadly flash floods in Spain that have killed at least 158 people. Scenes of destruction have been left in the wake of the powerful floodwaters which hit the east of the country late on Tuesday and early Wednesday, marking Spain‘s worst natural disaster
The pound has fallen sharply after the chancellor announced the biggest tax rises in a generation. Over the last three days, sterling has dropped by 1.2% (in trade weighted terms) – the biggest fall in 18 months. Between around 1.30pm and 5.30pm today, versus the dollar, it dropped from about 129.9c to the pound to
The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a deal that could be worth close to £200m. Sky News has learnt that Mr Harris is advising a group of businessmen including Zechariah Janjua and Navshir Jaffer on an offer to
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