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The king and AI: UK monarch Charles meets artificial intelligence leaders as safety concerns swirl

4:55 AM on Thursday, September 17

King Charles III has urged AI leaders to keep artificial intelligence under control and beneficial for people and the planet

This combination of photos made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the same area on the surface of the moon before and after a newly-discovered crater in May 2024. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Intuitive Machines via AP)

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

2:03 PM on Wednesday, September 16

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two years ago

This 2026 photo provided by UCLA shows scientist Robert Eagle holding a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth that was used to measure the dinosaur’s body temperature. (UCLA via AP)

The T. rex had a body temperature similar to our own, study finds

2:02 PM on Wednesday, September 16

A new study has found that the T

Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years

5:03 AM on Wednesday, September 16

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979

No, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive – a developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that way

8:36 AM on Tuesday, September 15

FILE - Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks during the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, May 28, 2026, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool, File)

US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

8:16 AM on Tuesday, September 15

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

FILE - Microsoft's Bill Gates attends a dinner with President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room of the White House, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Gates Foundation warns AI could widen inequality as foundation pledges $1B to expand access

12:01 AM on Tuesday, September 15

Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities

Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study

9:07 AM on Monday, September 14

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets

8:40 AM on Monday, September 14

A fossilized tooth of a Pacific mastodon, left, is displayed during an interview in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026, in Palo Alto, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

7:12 PM on Friday, September 11

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye

Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi, 54, holds her three-day-old daughter, Georgia, as her husband, Constantinos Raptis, 60, stands in the background at a private maternity clinic in Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

After tragedy, a Greek couple welcomes a daughter born from an embryo frozen for 22 years

11:24 AM on Friday, September 11

A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl from an embryo frozen for 22 years

Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected

9:00 AM on Thursday, September 10

A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected

FILE - A person cools off at a cooling mist spot on a hot and sunny day at the Sensoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Aug. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.

10:00 PM on Wednesday, September 9

The European climate service Copernicus said the Earth just sweltered through its hottest month on record in August

FILE - Saltwater succulents grow by the water on Bartolome Island, Ecuador in the Galapagos on June 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Alie Skowronski, File)

A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

5:37 PM on Wednesday, September 9

The prediction that this season’s El Nino will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks as French European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet listens during the International Space Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP)

What to know about Europe’s push to compete in space

11:40 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Key figures from Europe’s space industry and other international players have converged on Paris to discuss how to advance the continent’s ambitions in a global market dominated by the United States

FILE - Artemis II Pilot Victor Glover, left, and Commander Reid Wiseman, right, participate in a Congressional Space Medal of Honor ceremony at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Aug. 28, 2026, in Houston. (AP Photo/Karen Warren, file)

Artemis II moonshot commander and pilot are hanging up their astronaut suits at NASA

11:12 AM on Wednesday, September 9

The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are leaving spaceflight behind

Space weather can cause both beautiful auroras and infrastructure challenges – 5 essential reads on protecting life and technology

8:46 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Visitors tour the exhibition booths operated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on June 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China hits back at US claims of 'malicious' AI distillation ahead of planned Trump-Xi talks

5:44 AM on Wednesday, September 9

China has dismissed U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems

In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers sit in a rubber boat during the search for journalists missing while covering the eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau, in the waters off Anyer, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (BASARNAS via AP)

Indonesia searches for 8 missing at sea near Anak Krakatau volcano

12:31 AM on Wednesday, September 9

Indonesian rescuers are searching for eight people who went missing at sea while heading to report on a volcanic eruption at Anak Krakatau

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