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The Technology section covers clean tech, engineering breakthroughs, space exploration, desalination, advanced materials and green innovation. Inventions and cutting-edge projects that could help solve environmental challenges and change everyday life.

Artist rendering of Japan’s H3 rocket in flight above Earth, with the upper stage firing as it climbs toward orbit.

Japan looked to the skies once again with its H3 rocket until the engine malfunctioned and minutes later the plan began to unravel

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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Composite graphic of ESA’s Flight Ticket Initiative showing a Vega C launch, CubeSats in orbit, Earth at night, and EU stars.

Europe wants to test its technology directly in space and has already reserved the first “tickets” on new rockets

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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Static test firing of the P160C solid rocket motor at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, sending a huge smoke plume skyward.

Europe has just fired up a more powerful engine in French Guiana, and the change could alter who calls the shots in space launches

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January 13, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine inside a U.S. shipyard, image illustrating the return of the USS Utah name.

U.S. Navy brings back the USS Utah name with a new Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine

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January 3, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Russian Navy nuclear-powered cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (080) at sea with escort tugs

After more than 20 years without sailing, a Russian nuclear giant returned to the sea, and the most disturbing detail is not its size

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January 2, 2026 at 11:32 AM
China surprises the world: it deploys humanoid robots to patrol its border... and they can work 24 hours without rest

China surprises the world: it deploys humanoid robots to patrol its border… and they can work 24 hours without rest

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December 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
NASA explore Jupiter and discover a mysterious green glow

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a green glow near Jupiter’s north pole: what JunoCam saw

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November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The Great Canyon is predominantly regarded as a tourist attraction but after half a billion years, palaeontologists unveiled the existence of ancient animals there

Cambridge researchers find thousands of tiny Cambrian fossils over 500 million years old in the Grand Canyon

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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Radio echoes detected by at 3I/ATLAS.

“It’s speaking” — Radio echoes detected from 3I/ATLAS and NASA finally reveals its origin

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November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Leonid meteor shower

New York sky show tonight — Best places to watch the Leonid meteor shower at its peak

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November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NASA discovers the fastest object ever

NASA tracks the fastest object ever spotted — 283 miles per second and leaving the Milky Way behind

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November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
star dimming behavior

Tabby’s Star dims again, and Columbia researchers propose a destroyed exomoon as the cause

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November 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
cosmic tornado

It’s 1.8 trillion miles long — NASA spots a cosmic tornado exposing the universe’s true violence

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November 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Scientists negative time

Scientists create time-traveling light — It left its box before it entered and flowed towards the past

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November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
3I/ATLAS

It just mutated — NASA detects 3I/ATLAS asteroid changing form and heading our way

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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Saturn's rings vanish

Saturn loses its rings in November — Every 50 states will see this nighttime spectacle

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November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hunter's Moon

Brightest moon of 2025 to dazzle all 50 states — Giant lunar spectacle rises on this date

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November 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
450 million galaxies

450,000,000 galaxies mapped in full color — NASA finds treasure trove of cosmic fossils

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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NASA

Super-Earth GJ 251 c, 18 light-years away, lies in its star’s habitable zone and is a top target in the search for life

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October 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
near the Earth

It will be with us until 2083 — Earth’s companion will be surrounding us before drifting away at breakneck speed

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October 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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