At least 27 rockets are fired by Hamas shortly after midnight at cities and towns in central and southern Israel. (Times of Israel) (Ynet)
Lèse-majesté in Thailand Thai activist Arnon Nampa is sentenced to four years in prison for posting a royal insult on social media in 2021. (CNA)
Thai activist Arnon Nampa is sentenced to four years in prison for posting a royal insult on social media in 2021. (CNA)
Astrobotic's and NASA's Peregrine Mission One lunar lander is destroyed as it reenters Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean following the failure of its propulsion system. (BBC News)
Commercial Lunar Payload Services Astrobotic's and NASA's Peregrine Mission One lunar lander is destroyed as it reenters Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean following the failure of its propulsion system. (BBC News)
The JAXA lunar probe SLIM achieves the first-ever lunar soft landing of a Japanese spacecraft. (BBC News)
The Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, Kōchikai, and Shisuikai factions of the Liberal Democratic Party all announce their intention to dissolve as a result of the scandal. (Nikkei Asia)
Yingcai Boarding School fire Thirteen third grade children are killed and another child is injured in a fire at a boarding school dormitory in Dushu, Henan Province, China. The school's director has been arrested. (CNA)
The Dutch owner of Yandex, a Russian multinational technology company and search engine, announces the sale of the company to a "fully Russian-owned entity" for 475 billion rubles (US$5.2 billion). (BBC News)
Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Odysseus successfully touches down on the Moon, near the lunar south pole, making it the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. (BBC News)
Moons of Uranus, Moons of Neptune Three new moons of the Solar System are discovered, one around Uranus and two around Neptune, bringing their total known satellites to 28 and 16, respectively. (PBS)
Three new moons of the Solar System are discovered, one around Uranus and two around Neptune, bringing their total known satellites to 28 and 16, respectively. (PBS)
Hezbollah launches rockets on Arab el Aramsha, Hanita, Shebaa Farms and Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel and the Golan Heights. (Jerusalem Post)
Hezbollah fires 37 Katyusha rockets on Meron, Israel in northern Israel without injuries.(Times of Israel)
Twelve people are killed in an explosion at a mine in Harnai District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (AP)
General Electric finalizes split into 3 independent companies: GE Aerospace, GE Vernova and GE HealthCare. (Reuters).
European Space Agency scientists announce the discovery of Gaia BH3, the second-largest known black hole in the Milky Way. (NOS) (ESA)
NASA announces that it has received decipherable data from the Voyager 1 space probe for the first time in five months. (CNN)
A Chinese spacecraft carrying the Shenzhou 17 crew lands back on Earth at the Dongfeng site after completing a six-month mission on the Tiangong space station. (AP) (SHINE)
Chinese space program A Chinese spacecraft carrying the Shenzhou 17 crew lands back on Earth at the Dongfeng site after completing a six-month mission on the Tiangong space station. (AP) (SHINE)
Chinese space program The China National Space Administration launches the Chang'e 6 spacecraft from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on a two-month mission to collect lunar rock and soil samples from the far side of the Moon. (Reuters) (AP)
The China National Space Administration launches the Chang'e 6 spacecraft from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on a two-month mission to collect lunar rock and soil samples from the far side of the Moon. (Reuters) (AP)
Researchers at Google DeepMind announce the development of AlphaFold 3, an AI model that can predict the structures of almost all biological molecules and model the interactions between them. (Time) (Nature)
A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, reaching G5 intensity and causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005. (NOAA)
May 2024 solar storms A geomagnetic storm hits Earth, reaching G5 intensity and causing widespread aurorae, with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center issuing its first G4-level storm watch since 2005. (NOAA)
OpenAI announces a new model of their generative pretrained transformer (GPT) named GPT-4o, capable of visual and video speech recognition and translation. (Reuters)
One civilian killed and five IDF personnel injured in Hezbollah shelling on Adamit kibbutz and launches 60 rockets at IDF air traffic control base in Mount Meron, Israel.(L'Orient le Jour)
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope discover the earliest known merging of black holes, 740 million years after the Big Bang. (AP)
OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, due to the usage of AI by these operations to generate propaganda and fake content. (NPR)
Chinese space program China's Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission to collect moon rock successfully lands on the far side of the Moon. (Reuters)
Chinese space program The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth. (Reuters)
The China National Space Administration's Chang'e 6 spacecraft lifts off from the surface of the far side of the Moon carrying samples of lunar soil and rocks back to Earth. (Reuters)
Boeing's Starliner capsule launches its first astronaut-crewed flight into space to the International Space Station after several delays at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. (ABC News)
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko becomes the first human to spend 1,000 days in outer space. (AP)
A Russian Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft crashes during a routine training exercise in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, killing both crew onboard. (Reuters)
Hezbollah launches 90 rockets at IDF targets of a factory, center station in Ein Zeitim and Ami'ad and an airforce surveillance station in Meron, 70 at the Mount Meron area, ten more at Zar'it, and launching 145 more. (Reuters)
2024 Kasai River disaster At least 86 people are killed after a boat carrying 271 passengers capsizes on a river near Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (AP)
Chinese space program The Chang'e 6 lunar exploration mission successfully returns to Earth after collecting rock and soil samples from the far side of the Moon. (AP)
The Russian satellite Resurs-P No.1 breaks up into over 100 pieces of debris near the International Space Station. (Reuters)
A Chinese Tianlong-3 rocket stage is accidentally launched during a static fire test in Gongyi, Henan, China, causing it to crash and explode. No casualties are reported. (CNN)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization officially grants membership to Belarus. (Yahoo! News)
Hezbollah launches 40 rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria, killing two Israelis. (The Jerusalem Post)
Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School publish a claim for the cause and curative path for the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus in the journal Nature. (Newsmax) (Nature)
NASA cancels its lunar water-seeking rover mission with the VIPER rover, citing cost overruns and launch delays, after spending $450 million on the project. (AP) (NASA)
Three people are killed and 12 others are injured when a balcony collapses in Naples, Italy. (Rai News)
Researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science report evidence of dark oxygen being produced from metals on the seafloor. It was previously assumed that almost all the free oxygen (O2) on Earth was created through photosynthesis, which requires sunlight. (NPR)
Life on Mars, Perseverance (rover) NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars finds a rock containing spotted features which are possible fossilized records of microbes, though non-biological processes cannot yet be ruled out. (Space.com)
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars finds a rock containing spotted features which are possible fossilized records of microbes, though non-biological processes cannot yet be ruled out. (Space.com)
Hezbollah launches rockets at Upper Galilee, northern Israel. (Haaretz)
An Israeli civilian is killed in the HaGoshrim kibbutz by a rocket fired from Lebanon. (Reuters)
Hezbollah fires dozens of Katyusha rockets at northern Israel.(The Times of India)
Hezbollah launches rockets at Upper Galilee in northern Israel which are intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome and misses an Israeli airforce plane in Lebanese airspace.(Al Jazeera)
Egypt and the United Kingdom issue NOTAM alerts and order their airlines to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspaces. (Reuters)
Hezbollah launches rockets on the Israeli-occuped Syrian Golan Heights and shelled an IDF outpost in Jal al-Allam, Israel. (Al Jazeera)
Hezbollah fires 25 rockets at the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and fifteen rockets at Shlomi and Kabri in Upper Galilee, Israel. All rockets are intercepted by the Iron Dome. (Al Jazeera)
Ukraine launches twelve rockets and 14 drones into Russia, according to both acting Governor of Kursk Oblast Alexei Smirnov and the Russian Ministry of Defence. (DW Russian)
Liquid water is confirmed to be present at depths of 10–20 km (6.2–12.4 mi) below the surface of Mars, based on a new analysis of data from NASA's InSight lander. (BBC News)
Water on Mars Liquid water is confirmed to be present at depths of 10–20 km (6.2–12.4 mi) below the surface of Mars, based on a new analysis of data from NASA's InSight lander. (BBC News)
Hezbollah launches four rockets at IDF targets in Shamir and Malkia in Upper Galilee which were intercepted by the Iron Dome causing a fire in Shamir and Ruwaysat al-Alam of Kfarchouba in southern Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)
A rocket engine for Rocket Factory Augsburg's launch vehicle RFA One explodes during a test launch at the SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland, United Kingdom. (BBC News)
Hamas fires two rockets from the Gaza Strip with sirens sounding in Sderot, Ibim, and Nir Am. (Middle East Monitor)
The European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and seven other countries sign the first international treaty on the use of artificial intelligence systems. (DW) (Council of Europe)
The Boeing Crew Flight Test capsule returns to Earth uncrewed, landing at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, United States, after being docked for three months at the International Space Station. (CNN)
Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there were a record 19 people in outer space: the three astronauts on the MS-26 mission, three more on China's Tiangong space station, four people on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and nine more on board the International Space Station. (CollectSPACE)
Spaceflight Following the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, there were a record 19 people in outer space: the three astronauts on the MS-26 mission, three more on China's Tiangong space station, four people on the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, and nine more on board the International Space Station. (CollectSPACE)
Polaris program The spacecraft of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX returns to Earth after five days in orbit. (BBC News)
The spacecraft of the Polaris Dawn private spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX returns to Earth after five days in orbit. (BBC News)
Researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology announce they have reconstructed the oldest human genome ever found, belonging to a man and a woman who lived about 10,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period. The prior oldest decoded genome was from about 2,000 years ago. (DW)
Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. (France 24)
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. (France 24)
Swedish lithium-ion technology developer Northvolt announces revised company operational scopes and its intention to layoff 1,600 workers in the country. (CBC)
A rocket explosion is reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, with the debris severely injuring a man. Separately, a drone is intercepted by Israeli forces over the Mediterranean Sea. (Al Jazeera)
Due to Hurricane Milton, NASA cancels the launch of the Europa Clipper scheduled for October 10. (CBS News)
Europa Clipper Due to Hurricane Milton, NASA cancels the launch of the Europa Clipper scheduled for October 10. (CBS News)
Two people are killed by a Hezbollah rocket fired at Kiryat Shmona, Israel. (BBC News) (MDA Israel)
