Month: July 2026

Spain’s government has declared a national emergency after wildfires forced the evacuation of some 10,000 people in the central region of Madrid, while in southern France tens of thousands fled their homes to escape two major blazes. The national emergency in Spain means that the nation’s interior ministry, which controls police and security forces, has […]

A huge, stray piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, travelling at about 8,700km/h, is expected to crash into the moon in August and leave a crater on the lunar surface. The upper stage booster launched in January 2025, carrying lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace, was supposed to burn up in […]

Flooding in India’s north-eastern state of Assam has killed at least 50 people and displaced 700,000 after days of heavy monsoon rain that overflowed the Brahmaputra River, officials said. The river, one of Asia’s largest that originates in the Tibet region and flows about 560 miles through Assam, flooded villages, swept away homes and forced […]