If the movies teach us anything, it’s that the US government has a small room with a few stressed-out bureaucrats worrying about every disaster that might arise. Volcanos? Absolutely. Pandemic influenza? You got it. Today, we heard from the killer asteroid team.
General Dynamics is one of the largest defense contractors in the country, a massive conglomerate that builds jets, tanks, bullets and submarines at facilities around the United States. It is also caring for the detained migrant children that the US government has separated from their parents.
At a meeting of National Space Council intended to transfer space responsibilities from military to civilian hands, president Donald Trump surprised attendees by ordering the top US military officer to launch a new branch of the military in space.
New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood has sued the Trump Foundation for self-dealing, calling for a $2.8 million penalty and the dissolution of the so-called charity. Underwood’s office also referred potential criminal prosecutions to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission.
The corporate tax cuts enacted by president Donald Trump and the Republican party are supposed to lure investment back to the US, leading to an increase in wages for working Americans.
The US, Canada and Mexico will jointly host soccer’s World Cup in 2026—a reminder that the economic ties binding the three nations together will outlast US president Donald Trump’s bluster about trade back-stabbing.
The US Navy sent two warships to a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea on May 28 in its latest symbolic protest against China’s claims there.
Donald Trump has pitted himself against his own cabinet officials, the US law enforcement and intelligence communities, and even the will of Congress, all in an effort to save Chinese telecom manufacturer ZTE.
In 2015, an underwater search effort led by a robot found the San José, one of the richest sunken treasures in maritime history. The government of nearby Colombia promptly declared the location a state secret.
A US diplomat in China has reported unpleasant feelings of pressure and irritating sounds, reminiscent of reports of experiences in Cuba that left 21 US diplomats with brain injuries last year.
SpaceX debuted the last major upgrade of the Falcon 9 rocket in a successful launch on May 11. But it has yet to demonstrate that a critical system in the redesigned rocket is safe enough to carry astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
Poker players have a tell. So did the late Iranian General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam: He liked his buildings painted aquamarine.
SpaceX will reuse a rocket booster today to continue a globe-spanning technology upgrade in space, and also launch a pair of satellites to precisely measure shifts in the earth’s mass.
Incels are actually right about something: Young, male sexlessness is a product of the times—just not for the reasons they think.
US astronauts haven’t had their own ride into orbit since the space shuttle was retired in 2011. Two private companies are racing to replace it and become the first to fly astronauts for NASA.
“To this day, I’m not very interested in the actual exploration of space,” the late Tom Wolfe told a reporter during the book tour for The Right Stuff, his seminal tale of the first American astronauts.
Negotiators from the US, Canada and Mexico can’t seem to agree on how trade talks are going. Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has said a deal was “very close,” while US trade representative Robert Lighthizer described the deal as “nowhere near close.”
OneSpace launched a rocket 40 kilometers (25 miles) into the air on May 17, the first such demonstration by a private company as China urges its aerospace industry to match space technology developed in the US.
The US government may begin charging users for access to five decades of satellite images of Earth, just as academic and corporate researchers are gaining the tools they need to harness them.
Donald Trump is already handing out concessions to China on trade rules, and the big question is why.
Today, NASA unveiled the salty plumes of Jupiter’s moon Europa, but Texas Representative John Culberson beat them to it last week.
Launching the same rocket to orbit twice in 24 hours has never been done before. But Elon Musk says the newest version of his Falcon 9 rocket will accomplish the feat in 2019.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will fly Bangladesh’s first satellite into orbit today in a mission that amounts to a dress rehearsal for taking astronauts into orbit.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sitting on the pad at Kennedy Space Center doesn’t look too different from its predecessors, but it represents the culmination of two decades worth of rocket engineering at Elon Musk’s space company.
