Science

Coroners and medical examiners combine autopsies, toxicology tests, and scene evidence to establish a medical cause of death and classify the manner of death using a 50% probability standard.

The Saumos wildfire has scorched 420 square kilometers in France, generating the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud and forcing 220,000 people to evacuate.

NASA is handing over its historic B-2 Test Stand—the same facility that powered the Apollo Saturn V—to Blue Origin for hotfire testing of its 200,000-pound thrust BE-3U engines.

Flames physically passed through NASA's deep space tracking facility near Madrid on Friday, forcing a 90-person evacuation. Operations have shifted to backup sites as engineers await access.

During a lunar return, spacecraft hit the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, generating plasma shockwaves that reach 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Here is how thermal protection systems survive the drop.

SpaceX successfully landed its Starship upper stage in the Indian Ocean on Friday, deploying 20 operational Starlink V3 satellites into orbit for the first time.