Syria’s government lost control of its own digital identity in early 2024, and the cause was not a sophisticated cyberweapon or a state-backed intelligence operation. It was bad passwords. Multiple official Syrian government accounts on X, including those tied to the presidency’s General Secretariat, the Central Bank, and several ministries, were breached in early March. […]

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Israeli authorities have steadily tightened restrictions around Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque since a 1994 massacre, and Palestinian officials say the measures have accelerated sharply since October 2023, raising alarms about the systematic transformation of one of Islam’s oldest holy sites. The Ibrahimi Mosque, built over a cave believed to contain the tombs of the prophet Abraham […]

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The question of whether we are alone in the universe has haunted human civilization for millennia, but it has rarely pressed so close to the surface of official government business as it does right now. Congressional hearings, declassified Navy footage, bipartisan legislation, and a growing body of witness testimony have dragged the UFO question out […]

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An Atlas 5 rocket reportedly carried 29 Amazon broadband satellites into low Earth orbit early Saturday morning, what may have been the heaviest payload the venerable rocket has ever flown and a sign of how hard Amazon is pushing to catch up on a constellation deployment timeline that looks increasingly difficult to meet. The Atlas […]

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The Trump administration’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal would more than double Space Force funding to over $71 billion, a $40 billion increase that would represent the largest single-year jump since the service branch was created in 2019. The surge, buried inside a sprawling $1.5 trillion defense spending request, signals that the Pentagon is treating space […]

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An Atlas 5 launched the latest set of satellites for Amazon’s broadband constellation April 4 as the company seeks to accelerate deployment of its spacecraft.

President Donald Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran on Saturday, threatening to unleash destruction on the country’s energy infrastructure if Tehran does not agree to open the Strait of Hormuz and begin negotiations. The deadline lands as American military personnel race to locate a missing crew member from an F-15E Strike Eagle shot down […]

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$71 billion request for the U.S. Space Force for fiscal year 2027 includes more than $60 billion for procurement, research and development

China's Chang'e program went from lunar orbiter to sample return in fifteen years and has now placed a base module at the south pole — a pace of execution that reveals as much about institutional design as it does about engineering capability.

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Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander spent time on the lunar surface in early 2025, and the data it sent back may force scientists to redraw one of the oldest maps of the moon’s internal structure. Science results from a private spacecraft operating on the moon, reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March […]

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