Methane has been seen spewing from comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time that the gas has been identified on an interstellar object. The amount of methane, relative to water, is also larger than is typically seen in comets from our solar system, further highlighting how different this interstellar visitor is than objects from our own cosmic neighborhood.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 key specifications have been tipped in a new leak along witha rumour which says Samsung will be adopting the dual-chip strategy, same as it did with this year’s Galaxy S26 and S26+. Here’s everything we know about the upcoming Clamshell…
SpaceX has lined up another compute deal ahead of its historic IPO, this time with Google. The company announced the deal in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for…
Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months after enabling them. A Priceline employee told TechCrunch that a routine Cursor contract renewal came back 4-5x more expensive.
Even though per-token prices have fallen, the push for more AI adoption…
Blackstone-backed data center operator AirTrunk said on Friday it would invest $30 billion in India by 2030, adding to a wave of commitments from technology and infrastructure groups seeking to expand computing capacity in the country.
The Australian company said it would…
Disputed historic Kodacolor photo of John F. Kennedy's final motorcade belongs to museum, court rules
June 8, 2026
Over the years, the assassination of John F. Kennedy (JFK) has raised all sorts of questions, from who fired the fatal shots to the ownership of various photos and films of the president on that infamous day in Dallas, Texas, 1963.
Now, the latest of these disputes, between…
I’ve long been awed by photographs of the night sky, but one of the latest images to stop me in my tracks isn’t a “photograph” at all. A radio telescope in Australia has built the largest magnetic map of the universe yet, a colorful image five times larger than all the previous radio mapping efforts combined.
The data comes from Australia’s national space agency CSIRO and the SKA…
After six months of lost contact, NASA has officially declared the Mars orbiter MAVEN lost to deep space. On June 3, NASA announced that the MAVEN Mars spacecraft has come to an end.
NASA unexpectedly lost communication with the orbiting Mars spacecraft in December 2025.
I’ve spent countless hours here at Electrek doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, I’ve been fortunate to learn these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That long-term experience with…
The first Volkswagen ID. Polo and Cupra Raval models rolled off the production line at the Group’s Martorell plant in Spain, the first of several new affordable, mass-market EVs.
Volkswagen ID. Polo, Cupra Raval EVs enter production
Volkswagen opened orders for the new ID. Polo in April, the electric version of one of the brand’s all-time best-selling models, and the Cupra Raval, a sporty…
