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Reflect Orbital Plans to Light Up Parts of Earth Where Sunlight Does Not Reach by April 2026

Reflect Orbital recently filed an application with the US FCC Space Bureau seeking permission to test launch its Earendil-1 non-geostationary orbit satellite. With this,...

World

Israel says first hostages handed over as Palestinian prisoners also expected to be released

Israel says Hamas has handed over the first seven hostages to be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. The remaining Israeli hostages...

Business

Farming community responds to rumours of an inheritance tax U-turn

The budget may still be more than six weeks away, but rumours of U-turns and changes are already in full swing. Over the last...

Environment

Big Oil forced to confront some tough choices as ‘monster profits’ fade into memory

Oil pumpjacks operate at Daqing Oilfield at sunset on November 18, 2024 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province of China. Vcg | Visual China Group |...

World

When is Hamas expected to release Israeli hostages?

Hamas is expected to release all hostages still in captivity as part of a ceasefire deal. The 20 living captives, who are all men,...

World

Trump in Israel for hostages return ahead of Egypt peace summit

👉 Follow Trump100 on your podcast app 👈 The world turns to the Middle East as hostages held by Hamas are returned to their...

Sports

Mariners shut down Jays’ bats to steal Game 1

Associated Press Oct 12, 2025, 11:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — 1 Related Toronto’s George Springer homered on the first pitch from...

Sports

Springer passes Jeter with 21st postseason HR

ESPN News Services Oct 12, 2025, 09:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — The 1 Related Manny Ramirez hit a record 29 postseason...

Sports

L.A. to start Snell in Game 1, Ohtani later in NLCS

Jesse RogersOct 12, 2025, 08:36 PM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions MILWAUKEE...

Sports

Penn State fires Franklin amid midseason free fall

ESPN News Services Oct 12, 2025, 02:02 PM ET 1 Related With the two losses, Penn State became the first team since the FBS...

Sports

The rise of Curt Cignetti, the fall of James Franklin and other midseason thoughts

Bill ConnellyOct 12, 2025, 06:15 PM ET Close Bill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has...

Sports

Penn State fires James Franklin: Top candidates, transfers and recruits

Oct 12, 2025, 02:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Less than a month ago, Watch your favorite events in the newly upgraded ESPN App....

Politics

Britain has, we are told, been playing a role behind the scenes of Trump’s deal between Israel and Hamas

Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday join world leaders at a historic summit in Egypt to witness the signing of the Gaza peace plan...

Environment

There’s a brewing risk to the stock market rally — and it’s not the flare-up in China trade tensions

Stocks were brutalized Friday in a way we haven’t seen in ages. Everything except some downtrodden consumer packaged goods stocks, led by the resurgent...

Politics

US ambassador to Israel calls cabinet minister ‘delusional’ for claim UK played key role in Gaza peace deal

The US ambassador to Israel has called cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson “delusional” after she told Sky News the UK played a key role in...

Science

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS May Originate from Milky Way’s Hidden Frontier, New Study Suggests

A new study proposes that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may have originated in the thick disk region of the Milky Way, a lesser-known frontier beyond...

Science

ESA’s ExoMars Orbiter Captures Closest Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured the closest-ever images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed Mars at 130,000 mph. The faint object revealed...

Science

Researchers Build Record 6,000-Qubit Quantum Machine That Works at Room Temperature

A Caltech-led team has built a 6,100-qubit neutral-atom quantum processor that operates at room temperature with a coherence time of 12.6 seconds and 99.98%...

World

Inside the ‘homecoming unit’ ready to welcome Israeli hostages

A teddy sits on a bed in a bright hospital room. Beside it is a small fridge stocked with bottled water and Coca-Cola. While...

Science

World’s First Chip Combining 2D Materials With Silicon Circuits Marks Breakthrough in Computing

Scientists have built the world’s first hybrid chip combining 2D materials with silicon circuits. Using a new ATOM2CHIP method, they achieved real-world performance with...