“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman is serving a 50-year prison sentence for protesting outside the Prairieland ICE jail last July. Hill is one of nine protestersContinue Reading
On Aug. 25, 1997, NASA launched the Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE satellite to study energetic particles traveling through space. It lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta II rocket and spent the next three and a half months making its way to its orbital post near the L1 Lagrangian pointContinue Reading
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: Roscosmos/Anna Kikina) Intensely focused and tethered to a floating laboratory in the vacuum of space, two astronauts spent over 6 hours working on the International Space Station during a historic spacewalk. What is it? Two astronauts aboardContinue Reading
Canada announced on 25 August it will implement the tariffs on $20bn worth of US goods, following through on Mark Carney’s vow to match US tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’Continue Reading
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European Commission says it is ‘assessing’ Spain’s request after some 70,000 migrants surged into North African enclave., European Commission says it is ‘assessing’ Spain’s request after some 70,000 migrants surged into North African enclave. Spain has formally requested emergency funding from the European Union to address the migration situation inContinue Reading
Survey indicates majority of Democrats in first six states to vote for 2028 nominee believe Israel committing genocide., Most United States Democratic voters in states that will play a key role in choosing the party’s nominee in the 2028 presidential election oppose providing aid and weapons to Israel, a newContinue Reading
A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan. Satellites watched cracks spread rapidly before the 76-square-kilometer slab finally broke free on August 4. It is the glacier’s biggest calving event since 2012, and scientists say two even larger piecesContinue Reading
5 min read NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency’s Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique observations of worlds beyond our solar system and the stars they orbit. The mission will determine theContinue Reading
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4 Min Read Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase thisContinue Reading
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