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Monday, October 19, 2026 · in pictures

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UAP

Six spheres at 480 miles an hour

The Pentagon released infrared video of six small spheres seen during a July 29, 2025 mission supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. The crew estimated the objects at about 480 mph and roughly 22,000

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UAP

Scientists say the spheres flap like birds

The authors measured the brightness of each of the six objects in every frame of the Pentagon video, file DOW-UAP-PR135. All six brighten and dim 7.1 to 7.9 times per second, each at its own rate and

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UAP

Israel's mystery object was likely a balloon

An unidentified flying object set off sirens on October 10 in Arab al-Aramshe, a village near the Lebanese border. After what it called an in-depth investigation, the Israeli military said it was "mos

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Space

Artemis III rocket gets its engines

At Kennedy Space Center, teams finished stacking the solid rocket booster segments for Artemis III. All four RS-25 engines are now installed on the SLS core stage. NASA plans to roll a "short stack" v

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Space

Blue Origin wants rockets flying every week

Blue Origin said it will add new New Glenn launch pads on Florida's Space Coast. It did not give their locations. Ian Richardson, Blue Origin's senior vice president of operations, said the infrastruc

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Space

Is the solar system bigger than we thought?

Jim Green, former NASA chief scientist, and Ed Belbruno, a mathematician at Yeshiva University, argue that the sun's gravitational frontier reaches nearly 3.8 light-years, about 241,000 astronomical u

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AI

The FTC goes after OpenAI and Anthropic

Citing a source who spoke to Axios, Ars Technica reports that the Federal Trade Commission sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI on October 14. The demands follow incidents in which

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AI

UK regulator turns to AI agents

The UK's data protection regulator says ten foundation model developers have made, or committed to make, data protection changes: Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, O

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Ancient

A lost palace archive near Erbil

At Kurd Qaburstan, near Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, a team led by UCF's Tiffany Earley-Spadoni found the first substantial group of cuneiform tablets from the Erbil Plain. The team recovere

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Ancient

Fifteen Sumerian-era farm records

The paper publishes fifteen tablets from the Iraq Museum dating to the Ur III period, the last Sumerian-led state, in the late third millennium BCE. From clues inside the texts, the authors conclude m

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