NASA’s Webb Telescope Spots Auroras on Neptune for the First Time

The vermilion, amethyst and jade ribbons of the northern and southern lights are some of Earth’s most distinctive features. But our planet doesn’t have a monopoly on auroras. Scientists have spied them throughout the solar system, weaving through the skies of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and even on some of Jupiter’s fiery and icy moons. Lights … Read more

In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader | Ece Temelkuran

After 22 years of power grabs, the seizure of all state institutions and severe oppression aimed at reshaping Turkish citizens into Islamofascist minions, Turkey is striking back against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarianism. In cities across the country, including the regime’s strongholds, protests have been ongoing for the past week. Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s detention … Read more

Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right | Justine McCarthy

Middle Ireland feels grievously insulted by the US president. On St Patrick’s Day, when the globe traditionally turns green, Donald Trump’s official guest at the White House was not the taoiseach bearing a bowl of shamrock, but an unelected stooge recently found by a civil court jury liable for the rape of a woman in … Read more

White House security leak: who’s who in the Signal group chat | US politics

Pete Hegseth Pete Hegseth Photograph: Reuters The appointment of the Fox News host to head the Pentagon was highly controversial. A former Army National Guard officer, Pete Hegseth, 44, has faced allegations of sexual misconduct, financial mismanagement and alcohol abuse. His contributions to the group chat include suggesting that because Americans were unfamiliar with the … Read more

In defiance of Donald Trump, is a European ‘security council’ emerging? | Paul Taylor

In the face of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s destabilisation of the Atlantic alliance, an embryonic European security council is taking shape on the hoof. Whether it will prove strong enough to protect Europe’s liberal democracies and deter Russia without US military support may be tested all too soon. Nato was created … Read more

Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe | Europe

If Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back. The administration officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for … Read more