Matías S. Zavia

256 published news

June 2025

1. 26 June
2. See It to Believe It: Moths Use Stars to Navigate During Migration
3. 24 June
4. The First 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Shot the Sky. In Just 10 Hours, It Did What Would Have Taken Years
5. 23 June
6. Elon Musk Faces Potential Public Health Issues Over an AI Model Linked to an Illegal Gas Plant
7. 18 June
8. China Will Protect Its Space Station With an ‘Iron Dome’: Robots That Can Intercept Any Nearby Objects
9. 16 June
10. Jules Verne Was Right: There’s Three Times More Water in Earth’s Depths Than in All the Oceans Combined
11. 12 June
12. No One Has Ever Reached the Earth’s Mantle. China Just Built a Ship to Try—And Extract Energy Along the Way
13. A U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Was Set to Close Due to the Loss of Subsidies. Mark Zuckerberg Seized the Opportunity to Acquire It
14. 09 June
15. Astronomers Combined 10,000 Images From the James Webb Telescope to Create the Largest Map of the Universe Yet. However, Something Doesn’t Match
16. 06 June
17. The Musk-Trump Breakup Has an Unexpected Victim: The International Space Station
18. 05 June
19. The U.S.’ New Idea to Power Its AI: Constructing Data Centers Near Natural Gas Fields
20. 04 June
21. The World’s First Commercial Nuclear Microreactor Is 100% Chinese. The Plan: Exporting It to Other Countries
22. 02 June
23. Musk’s Influence Over NASA Just Vanished: His Ally Jared Isaacman Is Stepping Down, the New Nominee May Be a Retired Air Force Official

May 2025

1. 28 May
2. North Korea Shares Its View on the U.S. Golden Dome: Space Nuclear Warfare Is Closer Than Ever
3. Starship Reached Space but Lost Control in Yet Another Mission Failure for SpaceX
4. 27 May
5. The Last Two Starships Exploded in a Similar Way, Almost at the Exact Same Time. The Twist: The Root Cause Was Different
6. 26 May
7. The Good News: Our Solar System Has a New Minor Planet. The Bad News: It Only Swings By Every 25,000 Years
8. 24 May
9. The Curiosity Rover Has Climbed a Mountain on Mars for 12 Years. It Just Sent Back an Impressive Video From the Summit
10. 23 May
11. FAA Gives Starship Green Light to Resume Flight Tests After 11 Weeks
12. 22 May
13. Filling Space With Mirrors Is Big Business. The Goal: Keep Solar Panels Working After Dark
14. Blue Origin Had Everything in Its Power to Surpass SpaceX in Lunar Missions. It’s Clearly Seizing the Opportunity
15. Only Three Countries Have Successfully Launched Humans Into Space. A Fourth Is Set to Join Them: India
16. 18 May
17. The Bad News: Earth’s Oxygen Supply Is Finite. The Good News: We Won’t Be Around to Witness It
18. 17 May
19. NASA Not Only Launches Rockets Into Space but Also Giant Balloons That Travel Around the World
20. 14 May
21. The Webb and Hubble Telescopes Observed Jupiter’s Auroras at the Same Time. The Problem: They Saw Different Things
22. 13 May
23. Bitcoin Miners Are Purchasing Old Power Plants. New Yorkers Aren’t Happy
24. 10 May
25. This Was the Last Time All Humans Were on Earth Together
26. 08 May
27. ESA’s Mars Rover Is Cursed: The ExoMars Mission Has Faced 20 Years of Hardship and Bad Luck
28. An Explosion, a Sniper, and an Ongoing Feud: This Is SpaceX’s Most Bizarre Story
29. 07 May
30. The Latest U.S. Slap in Europe’s Face Has Echoed Into Space: NASA Just Dumped ESA From Artemis Program
31. 06 May
32. A Soviet Probe Is About to Crash Into Earth. The Disturbing Part: It Was Built to Survive Hell
33. 05 May
34. The SpaceX Base in Boca Chica Has Grown So Much That Texas Has Decided to Legally Make It a City
35. 01 May
36. Starlink Has Operated for Six Years Without Competition. Now, an Ambitious Contender Has Begun Launching Satellites: Amazon
37. China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship. It Just Built a Steel Tank for Its Massive CZ-9 Rocket

April 2025

1. 30 April
2. European Scientists Have Launched the World’s First Space-Borne P-Band Radar. The Goal: Seeing Through the Forests
3. 29 April
4. When Spain and Portugal Went Dark, Starlink Kept Users Online: It Was ‘Even Better Than Usual’
5. 23 April
6. The U.S. Wants to Build an Unprecedented Missile Defense Shield. SpaceX Has the Perfect Technology for It
7. NASA’s Longest-Serving Astronaut Returns to Earth on His 70th Birthday: What Does This Mean for Space Photography?
8. 22 April
9. Scientists Suspected That Mars Was Once a Habitable Planet. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Just Cleared Up Any Doubts
10. 21 April
11. NASA Safety Panel Issues Strong Warning About the ISS: It’s in a Very Bad State
12. 17 April
13. The Webb Telescope Has Been Searching for Extraterrestrial Life for Years. It Has Just Detected the Strongest Signal Yet on the Exoplanet K2-18b
14. 15 April
15. This Abandoned Nuclear Power Plant Has Been Given a Second Life as the Quietest Acoustic Laboratory on Earth
16. 11 April
17. 12 Years After Mocking SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket ‘Dream,’ Europe’s ArianeGroup Is Developing a Mini Falcon 9
18. The Universe Is Becoming Increasingly Chaotic. Scientists Don’t Know Why, Suspect Dark Energy Might Be the Culprit
19. 09 April
20. Twenty-three Years Later, SpaceX Wins Its Most Brutal Battle Yet: Becoming the Leading U.S. Military Launcher
21. 08 April
22. Starlink Satellites Have Revolutionized Modern Warfare. China and Russia Are Developing ‘Starlink Killers’ to Disable Them
23. SpaceX’s Valuation Has Reached Such Unprecedented Levels That President Gwynne Shotwell Is Now a Billionaire
24. 07 April
25. The Great Solar Paradox: The Cheaper Solar Energy Becomes, the More It Collapses Global Power Grids
26. 03 April
27. Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Kill You, But It Might Hit the Moon. This Is Amazing News
28. Once-Stranded Astronaut Says That NASA Went Against the Protocol to Save Them: ‘These Folks Are Heroes’
29. 02 April
30. A Bitcoin Billionaire Paid SpaceX to Carry Out the First Spaceflight Around the Poles. He Just Achieved It
31. 01 April
32. A Lifetime in 300 Days: Once-Stranded Astronauts Look Incredibly Different From How They Did Before Getting Stuck in Space

March 2025

1. 31 March
2. Elon Musk Says That Mars Will Be Part of the U.S. His Claim Is a Historic Challenge to the Outer Space Treaty
3. 27 March
4. Isaac Asimov Predicted in 1941 That Satellites Would Transmit Energy to Earth. It’s Closer Than Ever to Becoming a Reality
5. NASA Cuts $420 Million From Its Budget Per DOGE’s Guidelines. Surprise: It’s Elon Musk’s Favorite Number
6. 25 March
7. SpaceX Is Set to Launch the First-Ever Polar Spaceflight Soon. The Mission’s Client Is a Bitcoin Millionaire
8. 24 March
9. The Atmosphere Is Shrinking. That’s a Problem for SpaceX and the Other Companies Working to Put 60,000 Satellites Up There
10. 21 March
11. Chinese Scientists Have Just Turned the Moon Race Upside Down After Detecting a Design Flaw in NASA’s Reactor
12. 19 March
13. China Declassifies a Top Secret Spacecraft: The Highest-Altitude Radar Satellite Ever Created
14. The Stranded Astronauts Soap Opera Comes to an End: They’ve Finally Returned to Earth Nine Months Later
15. 18 March
16. Elon Musk Shuts Down Design Flaw Rumors in the New Starship, Says It’s Going to Mars Next Year
17. 17 March
18. Debris From SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rockets Isn’t Something to Be Taken Lightly. It Cost Poland’s Space Agency President His Job
19. 16 March
20. SMRs Were Touted as the Future of Nuclear Power. The U.S. Pilot Project Just Failed
21. 14 March
22. China Is Getting Closer to Surpassing NASA With Its Own Mars Mission. It Just Invited Other Countries to Join
23. 13 March
24. The Webb Telescope Has a New Friend in Space: ‘We Are Literally Mapping the Entire Celestial Sky’
25. Astronomers Thought They Had Counted All of Saturn’s Moons. After Studying Them for a Year, They Received Quite a Surprise
26. 12 March
27. After 50 Years, the U.S. Returns to the Moon With ‘Low-Cost’ Spacecraft. The Results Have Been Disastrous
28. 11 March
29. The Astronauts Stuck in Space Are Finally Leaving the ISS. Their Final Message Is a Bold Statement: Elon Musk Was Right
30. 09 March
31. China Has Discovered an Energy Source So Massive It Could Last 60,000 Years. The Bad News: It’s Thorium
32. 07 March
33. It’s Happened Again: Intuitive Machines’ Lander Reaches the Moon Successfully but Falls Over at the Last Minute
34. SpaceX Loses Another Starship: The Rocket Has Exploded for the Second Time in a Row and Faces Its Biggest Failures in Recent History
35. 06 March
36. SpaceX Has Launched 8,000 Starlink Satellites in Just Five Years. This Is Why It’s Still Not Enough
37. The Voyager Probes Are Running Low on Plutonium 48 Years Later. NASA Has Just Taken Extreme Measures
38. 05 March
39. A Pakistani Astronaut on the Chinese Space Station Isn’t Just an Unexpected Sight. It’s China Aiming to Fill the Void Left by the U.S.

February 2025

1. 28 February
2. The World’s First All-Female Space Flight Took Place in 1963 in the USSR. Katy Perry Will Be on the Second
3. 27 February
4. Scientists Thought They Knew Why Mars Was Red. New Research Changes Everything
5. 25 February
6. The Pentagon Releases a Photo Taken by Its Top-Secret Space Plane for the First Time. However, the Most Surprising Thing Isn’t the Photo
7. The Webb Telescope Has Observed the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way and Discovered a Chaotic Light Show
8. 21 February
9. Astronauts Have Been Growing Lettuce in Space for Years. A New Study Says These Vegetables Could Make Them Sick
10. Elon Musk Has a New Piece of Advice for President Trump: Deorbit the ISS Within Two Years
11. 20 February
12. A Man in Poland Reported a Tank That Had Fallen From the Sky. It Was Actually a SpaceX Rocket That Reentered Uncontrollably Over Europe
13. 19 February
14. X-Ray Telescopes Reveal an Inconceivable Object: A Superstructure That Spans More Than a Billion Light-Years
15. Scientists Spent Six Years Processing Images of Black Holes Just to Prove Something: Einstein Was Right
16. 18 February
17. Carbon Capture Hasn’t Taken Off—And Probably Never Will. The Reason: Renewables
18. 17 February
19. The Mojave Desert Has Housed the World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant for More Than a Decade. It’s Going to Close After Frying Birds to Death
20. 13 February
21. Curiosity Continues to Send Videos From Mars Back to Earth. Its Latest One Reveals Something Unusual About the Planet’s Clouds
22. Astronomers Keep Proving Einstein Right 110 Years Later: The Euclid Telescope Has Discovered a Ring in Spacetime
23. 12 February
24. NASA Knows Exactly What It Wants to Do With Starship: Launch a Super Hubble Telescope Dedicated to Searching for Extraterrestrial Life
25. Currently, All U.S. Phones Can Connect to Starlink Satellites for Free. This Will Change in July
26. 11 February
27. Floating Solar Systems Seemed to Offer Endless Advantages—Until Someone Decided to Put Them to the Test
28. 10 February
29. Boeing Warns Its Employees to Prepare for a Potential Crisis: The Cancellation of NASA’s SLS Rocket
30. 06 February
31. The Probability of an Impact From Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has Increased to 1.8%. It Led the UN to Activate Global Defense Protocols for the First Time
32. 05 February
33. Elon Musk Isn’t Just Influencing NASA. He’s Starting to Dominate It
34. 04 February
35. Perovskite Solar Panels Were Wasting 97% of Energy They Captured in 2009. Now They’re Ready to Dominate the Industry
36. 01 February
37. A Collector Bought a Meteorite in Morocco in 2011. Scientists Say It Proves There’s Thermal Water on Mars

January 2025

1. 30 January
2. NASA Scientists Find All the DNA Nucleobases and 14 out of 20 Amino Acids in Bennu Asteroid Samples. They’re the Key Molecules for Life
3. 29 January
4. China Sets the Date for the Largest Engineering Project 22,370 Miles From Earth: Its Solar Space Station
5. Elon Musk Surprisingly Announces He’ll Rescue the Two NASA Astronauts Stuck in Space. It Makes No Sense
6. 28 January
7. China Has Just Activated a Huge Offshore Wind Turbine. It’s So Big That the Trump World Tower Could Almost Fit Between Its Blades
8. 27 January
9. NASA Is About to Launch Two Rockets Into the Northern Lights. The Goal: To Better Understand Their Mesmerizing Movements
10. Texas Installed Millions of Solar Panels on Rural Land. To Maintain Them, It Had to Hire 3,000 Sheep
11. 24 January
12. Abu Dhabi Will Use Its Oil Riches to Make the Impossible Possible: A Solar-Powered Grid That Operates 24/7
13. 19 January
14. At 69 Years Old, NASA’s Longest-Serving Astronaut Is Still Taking the Best Photos From Space
15. 17 January
16. Elon Musk’s Starship Explodes Over the Caribbean, Releasing a Dazzling Shower of Burning Debris
17. 16 January
18. The New Glenn Rocket Successfully Lifts Off: Jeff Bezos Has Launched One of the Most Powerful Rockets Ever Into Orbit
19. 15 January
20. The Pentagon Gives SpaceX a New Order. It Wants the Company to Connect Two Military Satellites Through a Laser Link
21. 14 January
22. China Reveals the First Mission of Its Homegrown Starship: Building a Half-Mile Wide Solar Power Plant in Space
23. A Frozen Pipe Ruined Jeff Bezos’ Birthday Plans: The New Glenn Rocket Has a New Debut Launch Date
24. 10 January
25. Looking for an Alternative: The Price of Silicon Has Fallen So Low That Frames Are Now the Most Expensive Part of Solar Panels
26. 09 January
27. NASA Wants to Collect Samples From Mars Before China. It’s Considering Using SpaceX’s Starship for the Task
28. 07 January
29. This Crater in Russia Hid a Surprise From 50,000 Years Ago: A Well-Preserved Mammoth Calf Named ‘Yana’
30. Starship Flight 7 Is Scheduled for Liftoff Soon. This Is How SpaceX Plans to Keep It Exciting
31. 05 January
32. Elon Musk Has Calculated What He Needs to Build a Sustainable City on Mars: 1,000 Starships and 20 Years of Launches
33. 04 January
34. NASA’s Done the Numbers: China Can Slow the Earth’s Rotation by Filling Up the Three Gorges Dam

December 2024

1. 31 December
2. A Child Once Asked Astronauts, ‘Why Doesn’t the Sun Make Outer Space Bright?’ It’s a Good Question
3. 30 December
4. It’s Alive: Parker Solar Probe Phones Home After ‘Touching’ the Sun’s Atmosphere
5. 29 December
6. South Korean Lab Produces Hydrogen on a Large Scale Using an Abundant Resource: Sewage
7. 27 December
8. There’s Been Water Since the Beginning of Time. A Quasar 12 Billion Light Years Away Holds 140 Trillion Times More Water Than Earth
9. 24 December
10. Reality Check for Russia: Roscosmos to Exit ISS by 2030
11. 19 December
12. Sam Altman’s Oklo Has Closed One of the Largest Private Nuclear Power Sales in History. It Doesn’t Have a Single Reactor Ready
13. 18 December
14. China and Europe Are Investing Heavily in Their Own Starlink, but the U.S. Advantage Remains Overwhelming
15. 16 December
16. Leaving California Is Just the First Step: SpaceX Initiates Plans to Create an Independent City in Texas
17. This Starship Rocket Isn’t Like the Rest. It’s the First Model of the Second Generation, and SpaceX Is Ready to Launch It
18. 12 December
19. Jared Isaacman Isn’t in Charge of NASA Yet. However, He’s Seen as a Key Factor to Boeing’s Downfall
20. 03 December
21. Voyager 1 Successfully Resumes Communication With Earth Thanks to NASA’s Latest Rescue Efforts

November 2024

1. 29 November
2. Starship’s Heat Shield Has Fallen Short. Elon Musk Is Already Considering Going Back to a Scrapped Design
3. 22 November
4. As Energy Prices Rise in California, Utility Companies Point to Roofs and Blame Solar Panels
5. Astronomers Capture a Close-Up Image of a Star Outside of Our Galaxy for the First Time in History
6. 21 November
7. Starship’s Sixth Flight Has Proven One Thing: Elon Musk Made the Right Decision in 2018
8. 20 November
9. Elon Musk Is Ready to Colonize Mars. His Chosen Form of Government: A Direct Democracy, With Some Nuances
10. 18 November
11. Wind Used to Be the Darling of Renewables, But There’s a New Source on the Block: Solar Has Overtaken Wind in Record Time in the U.S.
12. There’s a Backup Plan to Reverse Global Warming: Launching Diamonds Into Space. But It’ll Cost More Than $200 Billion
13. 17 November
14. Iceland Pulls Ahead of the Crowd in the Race to Put Solar Panels in Space
15. 15 November
16. Everything Is Ready for Starship’s Sixth Launch: SpaceX Will Push the Spacecraft to the Limit With Multiple Re-entry Modifications
17. Artemis Faces Crisis as Rumors of SLS Cancellation Swirl and NASA Remains Silent on Orion Shield Issues
18. 08 November
19. China’s Einstein Probe Spots Extremely Bright Blinking Object. It May Have Discovered a New Transient Event
20. 06 November
21. Amazon Planned to Connect Its New Data Center to a Nuclear Power Plant. Regulators Had Other Plans

October 2024

1. 31 October
2. The Perseverance Rover Is Emerging From the Martian Crater Where It Landed for the First Time. The Views Are Breathtaking
3. 29 October
4. After the Starliner Fiasco, Boeing Reportedly Looks to Sell Off Parts of Its Struggling Space Division
5. A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
6. 25 October
7. The Pentagon Has Its Eyes on a Company That Wants to Install Thousands of Solar Panels in a Place With Constant Sunlight: Space
8. 22 October
9. Elon Musk Says the Government Asked SpaceX to ‘Kidnap’ Two Seals to See if They Would Experience Stress From Rocket Launches
10. 21 October
11. France Has a Striking Plan to Recycle Some of Its Nuclear Waste: Turn It Into Forks, Doorknobs, and Saucepans
12. 18 October
13. SpaceX Is Replacing Boeing: NASA Cancels Starliner Spacecraft Flight Contracted for 2025
14. After Years of Waiting, NASA Has Finally Unveiled the Spacesuit for Its Moon Return. It Features an Unexpected Collaborator: Prada
15. 16 October
16. The U.S. Has Produced Its First Plutonium Pit Since 1989. The Goal: Refurbishing All Its Nuclear Warheads
17. 15 October
18. After 20 Years of Waiting, NASA Has Successfully Launched One of the Largest Spacecraft in History. Its Mission: Searching for Life on Europa
19. 14 October
20. There’s Video Proof That Starship Successfully Landed at Its Target Location Before Exploding
21. 11 October
22. SpaceX Leaves Rivals Speechless With the First Successful Landing of the Starship With ‘Half a Centimeter Accuracy’
23. 10 October
24. Scientists Thought the Milky Way Was Part of Laniakea. It Turns Out That an Even Larger Superstructure Controls Its Movements
25. 09 October
26. SpaceX Always Gets What It Wants: The FAA Has Moved Up Its Most Controversial Starship Launch to This Sunday
27. 04 October
28. Boeing’s Last Hope in Space: If the Vulcan Rocket Is Successful, It’ll Have a Chance to Compete With SpaceX
29. 02 October
30. A New Problem in the Falcon 9 Rocket Has Paralyzed SpaceX Launches at the Worst Possible Time
31. Elon Musk Says All of the World’s Energy Will Come From Solar Panels Once People Understand the ‘Kardashev Scale’
32. 01 October
33. Minnesota Installed Solar Panels on Two Large Fields. Five Years Later, They’re a Haven for Bees
34. Too Much of a Good Thing? The Amount of Solar Panels in Australia Almost Caused the Country's Electric Grid to Collapse

September 2024

1. 30 September
2. As China Makes Progress, NASA Is Facing Several Challenges in Its Efforts to Return to the Moon. Tensions Are Rising
3. 28 September
4. China Scientists Have Solved the Biggest Issue of Silicon Solar Panels by Creating One That’s 100% Recycled
5. Oxford University Researchers Have Created an Ultra-Thin Perovskite Film That Can Turn Any Object Into a Solar Panel
6. 26 September
7. The Spacecraft That Will Rescue Boeing Astronauts Is Prepared for Liftoff. With It, SpaceX Will Debut a New Launch Tower
8. 25 September
9. China Plans to House 5,000 Scientists Worldwide to Its Upcoming Lunar Base. The First Arrivals Are Scheduled for 2035
10. 23 September
11. Microsoft Will Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant That Has Been Closed Since 2019 to Power Its AI
12. Elon Musk’s Warning to the U.S. Government Is True: China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship
13. 22 September
14. NASA Manages to Get Voyager 1 to Switch On Its Inactive Engines for the First Time in Decades, Ensuring the Spacecraft Lives to See Another Day
15. 20 September
16. An Italian Winery Installed Solar Panels in Its Vineyards and Made an Unexpected Discovery: They Improve the Quality of Wine
17. 19 September
18. NASA Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Spiders on Mars. It Recreated Them on Earth
19. 18 September
20. A Million Miles Without Refueling: Why No One Is Making Cars Out of Thorium, the World’s ‘Most Powerful Fuel’
21. 17 September
22. Scientists Have Been Searching for Planet Nine for Years. More Than 3,000 New Simulations Suggest That It’s Not a Planet and Never Was
23. 15 September
24. Bill Gates Is Building the 'Most Advanced Nuclear Facility in the World' in a Small Wyoming Town of 2,000 People
25. 13 September
26. A Billionaire Has Just Ventured Into Territory Previously Explored Only by NASA. It’s a Warning About What the Future of Space Exploration May Hold
27. 12 September
28. Polaris Dawn Is a Success: SpaceX’s First Commercial Spacewalk Is Game-Changing
29. 10 September
30. SpaceX Makes History Again With Polaris Dawn. It Launched Four Civilians Into the Van Allen Radiation Belt
31. 09 September
32. A Bittersweet Ending for Boeing’s Starliner: Its Return Flight Was Nearly Perfect, Except for a Few New Issues
33. An Ode to The World’s Unluckiest Astronaut: He Trained for 14 Years to Go Into Space, Only to Be Replaced by an Actress
34. 05 September
35. Elon Musk’s Starship Opened an Unprecedented Hole in the Ionosphere, Russian Researchers Say
36. 03 September
37. NASA Has Successfully Stopped the ‘Strange Noise’ Coming From Starliner’s Loudspeaker. The Spacecraft Is Set to Return to Earth Soon
38. 02 September
39. Starliner Has a Plan to Return to Earth: If It Fails to Land in the Desert, Boeing Will Probably Never Fly Again
40. Do Fridge Magnets Increase Energy Consumption? Here’s What Manufacturers Say

August 2024

1. 31 August
2. Cobalt Is Responsible for the High Cost of Batteries. Japanese Scientists Have Discovered a More Cost-Effective Alternative
3. ESA and NASA Sent Two Spacecraft to the Sun. Together, They Successfully Solved a Long-Standing Puzzle: Why Solar Wind Doesn’t Cool Down
4. 30 August
5. SpaceX’s Riskiest Flight Is Set to Launch Soon: How to Watch the Polaris Dawn Mission Live
6. 29 August
7. U.S. Temporarily Halts SpaceX Flights. The Reason: A Failed Landing After 267 Successful Trips
8. 27 August
9. The Starliner Spacecraft Isn’t Just a Big Embarrassment: It’s Become a Huge Financial Loss for Boeing
10. 16 August
11. The Webb Telescope Has Successfully Penetrated the Nucleus of a Neighboring Galaxy, Which Is Home to a Fiercely Active Black Hole
12. China Produces More Batteries Than Any Other Country. The Problem: They’re Not Storing Energy Efficiently
13. 15 August
14. China’s Constellation of Satellites Is Unsettling the Pentagon. It Can Track a Fighter Jet as Well as an Asteroid
15. 09 August
16. SpaceX Is Already Testing a New Engine for Starship Described As ‘A Work of Art.’ Yet, the Competition Is Skeptical
17. 08 August
18. 80 Trillion Watts: A UK Startup Has Fired the World’s Most Powerful Cannon to Demonstrate Nuclear Fusion
19. 07 August
20. NASA Has Asked SpaceX to Postpone Its Next Flight. It Could Potentially Need It to Rescue the Boeing Crew

July 2024

1. 24 July
2. U.S. Makes Huge Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Research by Managing to Confine Plasma in a Magnetic Mirror
3. Engineers Are Developing Nuclear Spacecraft Again. NASA Says We're Going to Need Them
4. 22 July
5. The First Floating Solar Park in the Swiss Alps Has Paid for Itself in Just 2.8 Years. The Key: Its High Altitude
6. 19 July
7. NASA Just Paid SpaceX $267,000 to Develop an Emergency Plan to Rescue Astronauts on the ISS
8. 18 July
9. SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station. It’s Four Times More Powerful Than the Dragon
10. 17 July
11. We Have Two Hours to Protect the Electric Grid From an Extreme Solar Storm. The Recent Auroras Prove It
12. An Astronaut Took a Picture of a Red Sprite From the ISS. It’s an Extremely Difficult Phenomenon to Photograph
13. 12 July
14. China Is Reinforcing Its Space Station Against Potential Impacts Following the Explosion of a Russian Satellite
15. 11 July
16. The James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a Blue Planet With Various Problems. The Weirdest One: It Smells Like Rotten Eggs
17. 10 July
18. NASA Has Discovered X-Shaped Structures in the Ionosphere That Scientists Are Struggling to Explain
19. 09 July
20. After Invading Ukraine, Russia Threatened to Move to Its Own Space Station. It Just Approved Its Launch
21. 'Everything That Could Go Wrong Went Wrong.' After Four Years, ESA’s Finally Ready to Launch the Ariane 6 Rocket