Commentary On April 25, as Elon Musk appeared to clinch his $44 billion purchase of social media giant Twitter, his most prominent billionaire space rival and co-founder of marketing giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos, posted on Twitter, “Did the Chinese government just gain a bit of leverage over the town square?” Amazon’s huge dependence on China…
Lunar Eclipse Thrills Stargazers in the Americas
A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas. The eastern half of North America and all of Central and South America were prime locations to see the eclipse, while partial stages were visible across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. A full moon…
SpaceX Launches 2nd Batch of Starlink Satellites
SpaceX launched another 53 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9 first stage booster returned to Earth following stage separation and landed on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Starlink is a space-based system that SpaceX has been building for years to bring…
Millions Expected to See Full Moon Eclipse
On Sunday evening, the Moon will pass through the shadow of the Earth, creating a total lunar eclipse. For space watchers down on the ground, it’s a rare but exciting opportunity to see a phenomenon that has fascinated humans for millennia. It will be visible over much of the world. People in South America and…
Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts. Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it could be used to grow food by the next generation of lunar explorers. The results stunned…
Astronomers Capture 1st Image of Milky Way’s Huge Black Hole
WASHINGTON—The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, with astronomers calling it a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their center, where…
House Panel to Hold First Public Hearing on UFOs in Decades
The House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and counterproliferation is set to hold a public hearing next week on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, marking the first time such a hearing has taken place in over 50 years. The hearing, which will assess what risks UFOs pose to national security, will be chaired…
This Billionaire Won $8 Million Bid for a Seat on Blue Origin’s Space Flight—But He Won’t Be Making the Trip
Hedge fund Citadel’s founder, Ken Griffin, successfully bid for a seat on the New Shepard capsule of Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin but will reportedly not be part of its trip to space. What Happened Griffin has decided to donate his seat to a school teacher from New York City, Bloomberg reported. Griffin’s representative and Citadel CTO Umesh Subramanian made the winning $8 million bid in…
Black Hole Hunters Cast Gaze at Center of the Milky Way Galaxy
WASHINGTON—Residing at the center of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast—a supermassive black hole possessing 4 million times the mass of our sun and consuming any material including gas, dust, and stars straying within its immense gravitational pull. Scientists have been using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global network of observatories working…
Space Telescope in Home Stretch of Tests, Early Pics Impress
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s new space telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday. The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test pictures of a neighboring satellite galaxy, and the results are stunning when compared with images taken by NASA’s previous infrared observatory,…
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