Space

SpaceX completes Starship V3 wet dress rehearsal SpaceX stacked Starship V3 ahead of Flight 12 on May 19, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX) The public beach next to SpaceX’s Starbase launch and test facility was closed today (May 20), between about 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) and 2 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), while the company completed a wet dress rehearsal on the rocket and ground systems. Ahead of…

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Defense released what it termed “new, never-before-seen files” on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), tagging it as a historic effort in transparency. The UAP release came courtesy of the Trump administration’s Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE for short. The posting involves 158 files — documents…

The Apollo photos really shouldn’t have been part of the big UFO drop. Last Friday (May 8), the Pentagon released its first batch of declassified “UFO files,” responding to a directive that President Donald Trump issued in February. Many of the 158 files focus on recent sightings by advanced U.S. military sensors — a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light” flying over Syria in…

The most mysterious and yet ubiquitous stuff in the cosmos, dark matter is effectively invisible. This is simply because it doesn’t interact with light. But what if instead of trying to see dark matter, scientists attempted to hear it instead? New research suggests dark matter could leave a tiny but discernible imprint in the cacophony of ripples in spacetime called “gravitational waves”…