The basking shark’s scientific name, Cetorhinus maximus, roughly translates to “great-nosed sea monster” in Greek. In reality, these placid sharks, found the world over, are totally harmless.

SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of 2025 tonight, in what should be another busy year for the company. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off on Friday (Jan. 3) at 8:27 p.m. EST (0127 GMT ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was spotted streaking across the sky over Southern California on the morning of Friday,4. The rocket carried 23 Starlink satellites to be deployed into low-Earth orbit, ...

The basking shark is now protected under the Wildlife Act in Ireland From Monday, it is an offence to hunt or injure a basking shark (without permission or licence), wilfully interfere with or ...