A Wisconsin teen vanishes after a first date. How a phone app and security video helped lead to her killer

In April 2024, college student Sade Robinson, 19, went on a first date and never came home. Her car was found set on fire 3 ...
CNN

She was supposed to be the first teacher in space. 40 years later, her mission continues

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the first educator ...
Military Times

SWORD training platform key to US space superiority, program head says

Guardians and airmen of the 4th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron, Mission Delta 3, participate in Space Flag 26-1 at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, Dec. 12, 2025. (Dave Grim/U.S. Space Force) ...
The Conversation

NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China’s closed program

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April ...
CBS News

California down payment assistance program for first-generation homebuyers to reopen applications

A popular California program designed to help people buy their first home is making a comeback. California's Dream For All program is reopening applications next month, offering down payment ...
Ars Technica

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch

As Ars reported last week, NASA’s plan to replace the International Space Station with commercial space stations is running into a time crunch. The sprawling International Space Station is due to be ...
SpaceNews

Space Force ends ‘Resilient GPS’ satellite program

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...
Phys.org

What the first medical evacuation from the International Space Station tells us about health care in space

For the first time in 25 years of continuous crewed operations, an astronaut has been medically evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-11 mission ended when a SpaceX Dragon ...
InfoWorld

Java 27 gets its first feature

JDK 27, due in September, kicks off with a post-quantum hybrid key exchange proposal to bolster the security of network communications. Java Development Kit (JDK) 27, a release of standard Java ...
MIT Technology Review

The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station

Former NASA astronaut Drew Feustel now advises the astronaut training program for the private space company Vast. For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and ...
Marine Corps Times

Marine master sergeant redesignated to first sergeant in pilot program

Marine Master Sgt. Joseph B. Stoker is the first to change rank from master sergeant to first sergeant this month as part of the new E-8 pilot redesignation initiative. (Staff Sgt. Scott ...
Task & Purpose

Space Force guardians graduate basic training in their own uniforms for the first time

Almost exactly 6 years after the Space Force was founded, a basic training class made history as the first to march in the traditional boot camp graduation ceremony wearing the service’s own, ...