Starship’s eighth flight was a lot like its seventh. SpaceX launched the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket today (March 6), sending the 403-foot-tall (123 meters) vehicle aloft from its Starbase site in South Texas at 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT; 5:30 p.m. local Texas time). Seven minutes later, Starship’s huge first-stage booster, known … Read more
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks would be just the second example of three gravitationally bound space rocks found in the Kuiper Belt, the doughnut-shaped region of icy … Read more
Using NASA’s Chandra observatory and Europe’s XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers may have solved a 45-year-old cold case. The team of cosmic homicide detectives determined a strange X-ray signal is the dying scream of a planet destroyed by a superdense stellar corpse called a white dwarf. The signal, which originates from the heart of the Helix Nebula, … Read more
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting … Read more
Astronomers have uncovered a treasure trove of feeding black holes at the heart of dwarf galaxies — small, faint galaxies containing thousands to several billions of stars but very little gas. The discovery, made with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), contains several “missing link” intermediate-mass black holes. This is both the largest sample of … Read more
The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles. The findings aren’t frivolous at all and could help us better understand how black holes interact with their environments and help galaxies evolve. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way’s central … Read more
When Michael Buffer bellowed his iconic catchphrase, he had no idea what was about to unfold between Wigan Warriors and Leigh Leopards. The legendary ring announcer was a celebrity guest for the Super League opener at The Brick Community Stadium in Wigan. 2 Buffer got the vocal chords going prior to Wigan’s Super League opener … Read more
Hundreds of college football players have signed group licensing agreements for their likeness to be used on video games in what is expected to be the single largest commercial deal in the industry’s history, eclipsing $20 million and, perhaps, touching more than hundred schools. Pathway Sports and Entertainment, a new company focused on monetizing athlete … Read more
Paige Spiranac told talkSPORT she was utterly stunned watching Bryson DeChambeau hit golf balls in person. Influencer Spiranac and two-time major winner DeChambeau are two of the most popular golfing personalities on the internet. 5 Spiranac is a former professional golfer who rose to fame as an influencer and modelCredit: Getty Ex-pro Spiranac rose to … Read more
Luke Littler opened up on his surprise emotional reaction at the PDC World Darts Championship. Littler sealed a spot in the third round of the tournament thanks to a 3-1 victory over Ryan Meikle. 3 Littler sealed a spot in the third round of the World Darts ChampionshipCredit: PDC However, the scoreline did not quite … Read more