Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft will launch from an airplane in the Marshall Islands to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory, which is dangerously close to burning up.
Science has spent decades trying to reconstruct Megalodon, the most powerful predator the oceans ever produced. The picture that emerges is more unsettling than legend.
The habits that look like putting yourself first and distancing your partner are often the ones silently holding a relationship together.
Around June 21’s solstice, regions north of the Arctic Circle experience the midnight sun: 24 hours of daylight, when the sun never sets and night disappears.

Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA’s Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the “spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations” to fly Aeolus to Mars, where the payload will “provide the first […]
Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo.

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. On TikTok, the tanned youths are explaining why they no longer wear sunscreen. In one video, a young man films […]

Two AI systems have matched, and in places beaten, doctors at diagnosing patients and planning their treatment. Then again, none of the patients were real. The results, published in Nature this week, are some of the strongest evidence yet that speciali…
A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.
Sunday, June 21, 2026, will mark the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s what will happen in North America, from extreme sunrises to events.