Nemesis theory suggests a hidden brown dwarf companion star triggers mass extinctions every 26 million years, but advanced surveys find no evidence.

The IRS has ended the Direct File program, which let some taxpayers file their annual returns for free using software developed by the government. Many tax preparation companies opposed this, as did ...

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Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...

WASHINGTON — IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year, the Trump administration has confirmed. An email sent Monday from IRS official ...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is officially ending Direct File, the free, government-run tax-filing pilot program that the Biden administration started last year. Instead, the Trump ...

The IRS ended Direct File, the free, online pilot program that nearly 300,000 taxpayers in 25 states used to file returns for tax year 2024. The IRS website for Direct File says “Direct File is closed ...

Over two dozen states incorporated the free tax software in 2025, but the IRS has decided to discontinue the program. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A handful of employees say they’ve been denied reasonable accommodations to work off-site. When they’ve brought it up to their superiors, they claim they were retaliated ...

NASA's revolutionary new Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally ready to fly, but not in the way it was first intended. The Dream Chaser is on track for its first orbital flight in late 2026, but it won't ...

Sierra Space and NASA have renegotiated their contract for the Dream Chaser spaceplane that will allow the spacecraft to make its first orbital flight next year as a free flier instead of visiting the ...

This week on Space Beat, host Rob Landers and space team reporter Brooke Edwards talk about NASA's upcoming IMAP mission to study the solar wind and the heliosphere around our solar system. Also, ...