Sandra Lindsay, a nurse at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, became the first American on Monday to receive a COVID-19 vaccine (besides those participating in medical trials). Pfizer, in association with BioNTech, began rolling out the shot just days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it on Dec. 11. “I believe this is the weapon that will end the war,” New York Gov.

British scientists will steam out of a Falkland Islands port in January on a mission to study the largest iceberg in the world. But it’s not just out of curiosity: Scientists are worried it could damage wildlife habitats in the British territory of South Georgia Island.

Texas and nine other states on Wednesday said the tech giant has wrongfully controlled prices of online advertisements, fixed the market in its favor, and eliminated competition. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had led a 2019 investigation with 49 other U.S. states and territories into Google’s “potential monopolistic behavior.” The company dismissed the lawsuit as “baseless.”

Hackers monitored the networks of the Treasury and Commerce departments undetected for months. In a Sunday emergency directive, the Department of Homeland Security asked all federal agencies to search their networks for compromises and told those affected to disconnect all machines using the targeted SolarWinds server software.

What scientists originally believed to be an asteroid captured by Earth’s gravity was actually a blast from the past.

Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab on Dec. 2 said the previously unidentified object was in fact a 1960s-era Centaur rocket booster endlessly slingshotting through the solar system. While astronomers were excited to identify the rocket, the discovery of 54-year-old debris highlights growing concerns with space junk near Earth.

If you look up at the night sky on Dec. 21, you will see something humans haven’t seen since the Middle Ages. Jupiter and Saturn will appear in the night sky separated by only one-tenth of 1 degree. For viewers on Earth, it will appear the two planets are separated by the width of a dime held at arm’s length, according to NASA.

The Federal Trade Commission and 48 states filed antitrust suits against the tech giant on Wednesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James said at a press conference that Facebook used its monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition like WhatsApp and Instagram, all at the expense of everyday users. In 2012, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion and later purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. It has also acquired some 68 other startup companies.