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Seemingly upright in the Columbus science module of the International Space Station – until asked to do a back flip while crossing the surface of the globe at 27,000 kilometers an hour – Peake faced the challenge of the media.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened at venues nationwide today with cinemas including Odeon, in Southend, and Empire, in Basildon, holding midnight screenings for eager fans. Even cooler, Hamill was joined by R2-D2, Darth Vader, some stormtroopers, and other Jedi for the occasion.

The photograph also shows the Compton crater in the foreground. If you’re an astronaut on the surface of the moon, though, you don’t see the opposite thing happen with Earth. The Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America are visible to the left.

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) rode into space on a Long March 2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi desert, about 1600 kilometers west of Beijing, at about 8:12 a.m. local time. Dark matter is an invisible material believed to have made up...

Tim Peake can expect to be propelled straight into challenging work on the International Space Station (ISS) but will also have the greatest time of his life, according to a fellow European astronaut. Since NASA stopped its own launching vehicles, Soyuz rockets have been ferrying...

Coincidentally, we’ll also have a child who’s fully up-to-speed on the Star Wars canon, minus the latest film, which I probably won’t have seen either by then.

“Our friendly crewmembers have always made JetBlue stand out from every other airline, and we recognize that customers today want the same great experience when they interact with our technology”, said Maryssa Miller, director digital commerce, JetBlue.

Tashfeen Malik, who helped her husband kill 14 people in the San Bernardino massacre, was allowed to enter the United States because officials never checked her social-media posts – which made no secret of her hateful goal of participating in violent jihad, it was reported...

While California law doesn’t now allow general use of self-driving cars on public roads, Google might be able to offer such a service on private properties and college campuses. It tends not to work out well. Google hopes to influence the DMV with its arguments.

All countries have agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius and, given the grave risks, to strive for 1.5 degrees. The $100 billion in finance has always seemed problematic.

Cook described the tax avoidance accusations as “total political crap”, and deflected blame on the US tax code for being far outdated.

Star Wars “The Force Awakens” opens this weekend in theatres nationwide.

SpaceX plans to perform a Falcon 9 rocket static fire test Thursday afternoon, according to tweets today from SpaceX and its commercial satellite customer, Orbcomm Inc.

For Elgin residents Ken and Judy Bardo, a Thursday night date to see the new “Star Wars” movie was a bit nostalgic.

Reports suggest that Samsung will install Android 5.1.1 Lollipop on this device, but users will still be able to make use of the fingerprint scanner that will be mounted on the phone’s home button, just below the display. The move seemed quite surprising given the fact that...