The Swift Observatory, a 1.5-ton NASA telescope that was launched more than two decades ago, has crashed back to Earth after an effort to rescue the wayward instrument failed earlier this year. The roughly 3,200-pound observatory reentered Earth’s atmosphere at 7:39 a.m. ET over the North Sumatra region of Indonesia, NASA said. Much of it…
An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The space agency said Monday it predicts the Swift Observatory will likely come crashing down on Wednesday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. But a handful of…
Cybersecurity researchers used an advanced OpenAI artificial intelligence model to identify a longstanding internet vulnerability before hackers could exploit it. That security weakness affects a programming language called PHP, short for “Personal Home Page,” which powers up to 70% of the world’s websites and web applications, including those used by government agencies and social media…
Erin Moriarty: Trysten, where are we? Trysten Mullis: We’re at the farm that I grew up on. This is where … me and my brother and sister grew up … these big white buildings here are the hog barns. Trysten Mullis, along with his younger siblings Taylor and Wyatt, and his parents Todd and Amy,…
A Chinese court sentenced three members of a criminal gang to death on Tuesday for operating a network of brutal scam centers in Myanmar’s Kokang region on the border with China, while jailing dozens more. China has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations to crack down on a vast industry that has flourished in…
London — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have dramatically upped the stakes in the complex Middle East war, killing at least 20 people — including an American — and wounding hundreds more with strikes on Saudi Arabia’s airports over the last week. The question is whether President Trump will order U.S. military action in support of Saudi Arabia, which has been…
CBS News has significantly expanded its knowledge base and on-air presence with the addition of 19 new contributors, who will appear across all of the network’s broadcasts and digital platforms. The new hires were announced by Bari Weiss, editor-in-chief of CBS News, during an all-hands meeting. The contributors, all experts in their fields, will begin…
A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, authorities said. The shooting occurred shortly before 1 p.m. local time on the city’s north side. Chief of Austin-Travis County EMS Robert Luckritz said at a Sunday news conference he believes the man was shot once in the torso and that…
When Cody Turcotte arrived to fight a wildfire scorching homes in Spokane, Washington, last month, there weren’t enough people at the scene to control it. His team of five engines joined just two others that had been battling the blaze alone for hours, as its flames rapidly spread. “You’re getting embers casting down on the…
The U.S. Marshals Service is preparing to transfer some 400 pre-trial detainees from a private prison in Georgia run by the Florida-based GEO Group to another facility nearly 200 miles away. Sources familiar with the plan say federal defenders, prosecutors and judges fear the move could disrupt criminal prosecutions in Atlanta, where the state’s busiest…
