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SpaceX’s Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold test flight that marked a big bounceback from recent failures. Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas today at 7:30 p.m. EDT (2330 GMT; 6:30 p.m. local Texas time). That was …

Running two days late, SpaceX finally launched its huge Super Heavy-Starship on Tuesday on a high-stakes return-to-flight after three catastrophic failures in a row earlier this year. The Super Heavy booster’s 33 methane-fueled Raptor engines flashed to life with a ground-shaking roar and a rush of flaming exhaust at 7:30 p.m. ET, majestically pushing the 40-story-tall rocket away from SpaceX’s …

In a groundbreaking discovery reported by CGTN, paleontologists in Zhucheng, China, have unearthed a massive tyrannosaur fossil that could rival “Sue,” the largest T. rex. The find, including a giant thigh bone and vertebra, suggests a creature over 12 meters long, potentially reshaping our understanding of dinosaur origins. The Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus Discovery The recent fossil discovery includes a remarkable thigh …

Jupiter holds secrets at its heart that continue to puzzle scientists. The largest planet in our Solar System has what researchers call a “dilute core,” a central region that doesn’t have sharp boundaries like once expected. Instead of a distinct rocky centre surrounded by layers of gas, Jupiter’s core gradually blends into the hydrogen-rich layers above it, creating a smooth …

A nearby star has a new heavyweight companion, and it swings around on a path that is anything but neat. The world, labeled GJ 2126 b, traces a stretched orbit that pushes close to its star, then races far away again. In new observations, researchers identified a giant world 124 light years away that circles its star every 272.7 days …

Beneath our feet lies a hidden world of staggering scale, a deep ecosystem brimming with billions of microorganisms. Its astonishing diversity has earned it the nickname the “subterranean Galapagos” and suggests that its genetic richness may rival or even surpass life above ground. Presenting their work at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in 2018, the researchers calculated the size …

Exoplanets might hold hidden clues about dark matter. New research suggests these distant worlds could even collapse into black holes, challenging existing theories. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation. Astronomers have identified more than 5,000 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. These distant worlds, known as …

Evergrande, formerly one of China’s biggest property developers, has been delisted from the Hong Kong stock exchange, capping the end of a long fall from grace. The company was removed from the exchange on Monday after an 18-month freeze on trading, imposed when the developer – once valued at more than HK$400bn (US$50bn) – was put into liquidation. Liquidators had …

It may be a Bank Holiday in our native UK, but that doesn’t mean our team of audio visual experts are taking a break from our weekly hi-fi and home cinema news digest. In this week’s Rewind we have a wealth of treats for you ranging from the inside skinny on Monitor Audio’s new special edition floorstanders to our final …

Peter Hoskins Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Before its debt crisis, Evergrande was building a new stadium for its football team, Guangzhou FC What does Evergrande do? Evergrande, formerly known as the Hengda Group, was founded by Mr Hui in 1996 in Guangzhou, southern China. At the time of its collapse, Evergrande had some 1,300 projects under development in …