Adrian Patel Technology Editor

NASA announced on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, the selection of three commercial companies to deliver four new science missions to the Moon by late 2028. The awards, totaling nearly $600 million, are part of the agency’s Moon Base Program, an initiative designed to establish a sustained human presence on the lunar surface. New Contracts for … Read more

Workers at Rockstar Games are seeking official union recognition from the company following a series of mass layoffs last year. Staff are coordinating with the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) to secure collective bargaining rights before the November 19 launch of Grand Theft Auto VI, according to reporting from The Guardian. The Push … Read more

“The first dinosaur fossil ever discovered on Antarctica has been identified as a titanosaur, according to the Natural History Museum, after being misidentified for decades. The fragment, collected in 1985 during a British Antarctic Survey expedition, was recently analyzed and confirmed to belong to a sauropod, marking only the second sauropod body fossil found on … Read more

“The launch of Katalyst Space’s robotic servicing spacecraft LINK to boost NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was postponed to July 1, 2026, due to weather, according to NASA Science. The mission aims to prevent the 22-year-old telescope from reentering Earth’s atmosphere, with a $30 million contract awarded to Katalyst Space Technologies for the rescue. A … Read more

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A 4.4-million-year-old partial skeleton known as Ardi, discovered in Ethiopia in 1994, is challenging long-held theories regarding human evolution. According to a 2025 study in Communications Biology, findings from the fossil’s talus bone suggest that human ancestors did not evolve from a generalized arboreal ape, but rather from an African ape-like creature already adapted for … Read more