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NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet heads for a new red, white and blue paint job By Robert Lea published 1 day ago The X-59 Quesst may be "quiet" when it breaks the sound barrier, but it now supports a loud color scheme. Artist's illustration of NASA's X-59 Quesst aircraft in flight. (Image...

More than a million Palestinians in Gaza are now displaced; why are Arab countries not opening their doors? Expert says some Arab countries fear aid to Gazans could help Hamas terrorists By Ruth Marks Eglash Fox News Published November 19, 2023 7:00am EST JERUSALEM — At a summit of leaders from...

New Image of B-21 Bomber Tail Shows Different Exhausts and Rear Deck from B-2 Oct. 27, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak A new photograph of the B-21 bomber circulating on the internet in the last few days—and the first to reveal what the back of the secret aircraft looks like—shows a different geometry...

Pakistan Christian couple granted bail in blasphemy case: ‘Landmark decision’ By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor Christian devotees pray during a Good Friday Mass at the Saint Francis Church in Lahore on April 15, 2022. | ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images A Pakistani court has granted...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirms that China's Zhurong rover has been stationary for months By Stefanie Waldek published about 3 hours ago The rover entered hibernation in May 2022, and there's reason to believe it hasn't woken up...

THE U.S. AIR FORCE IS PREPARING TO UNLEASH HYPERSONIC MAYHEM CHRISTOPHER PLAIN· AEROSPACEBREAKING NEWSDEFENSE ·DECEMBER 21, 2022 The Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) have selected a strategic partner to develop their hypersonic Mayhem surveillance drone. A leading defense contractor...

Success! NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe arrives at the moon By Mike Wall CAPSTONE is the first cubesat ever to reach Earth's nearest neighbor. NASA's CAPSTONE probe arrived in lunar orbit on Nov. 13, 2022. This is an artist's illustration of the cubesat. (Image credit: NASA/ Daniel Rutter) A tiny...

Iran: Climber Elnaz Rekabi apology was forced, source says By Parham Ghobadi BBC Persian An Iranian climber who apologised for competing abroad without a headscarf was forced to do so, a source has told BBC Persian. Elnaz Rekabi, 33, broke Iran's strict dress code at the contest in South Korea...

NOVEMBER 2022 IRAN A Second Iranian Revolution? The parallels are astonishing by Ray Takeyh The strange echoes of the 1970s over the past 18 months—with runaway inflation, an energy crisis, and an expansionist Russia—were startling enough. And then a revolt began in Iran, just as one did...

IRAN CRISIS UPDATE, SEPTEMBER 30 Sep 30, 2022 - Press ISW Download the PDF Nicholas Carl, Kitaneh Fitzpatrick, Zachary Coles, and Frederick W. Kagan September 30, 5:00 pm ET The Iran Crisis Updates are produced by the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute with...

Voyager turns 45: What the iconic mission taught us and what's next By Jamie Carter published about 15 hours ago Can the first probe to visit Neptune and Uranus make it to its 50th anniversary? NASA's Voyager 2 mission launched on Aug. 20, 1977. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Forty-five...

Experimental Zephyr drone sets new record for uncrewed flight duration By Brett Tingley published about 6 hours ago The record-breaking flight is intended to test new energy storage and efficiency systems. Artist's depiction of the uncrewed Airbus Zephyr in high-altitude flight. (Image credit...

First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian...

Webb: The World Is About To Be New Again As the Webb team wraps up the final tests for commissioning this week, we are now only days away from the public release of the first images and spectra on July 12! This also means that Webb is moving into the phase of full science operations that...

10 years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists still can't get enough of the 'God particle' By Keith Cooper published about 3 hours ago "Particle physics has changed more in the past 10 years than in the previous 30 years." An artist's depiction of a Higgs boson. (Image credit...

Atlas V rocket launches classified missile-tracking satellite for US Space Force By Josh Dinner published about 1 hour ago A pair of surveillance satellites are headed to orbit to help make sure you don't get hypersonic-missiled in your sleep. A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft...

https://www.space.com/nasa-capstone-moon-cubesat-long-journey-explained Why it'll take NASA's tiny CAPSTONE probe so long to reach the moon By Mike Wall published about 7 hours ago CAPSTONE launched today (June 28) but won't arrive in lunar orbit until Nov. 13. Artist's illustration of...

Voyager 1 glitch? NASA working to understand strange data from venerable probe By Meghan Bartels published about 6 hours ago An artist's depiction of the Voyager 1 spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Spending 45 years traversing the solar system really does a number on a spacecraft...

Today at 12:39 a.m. EDT|Updated today at 4:52 p.m. EDT https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/26/russia-ukraine-war-news-putin-live-updates/ WARSAW — President Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” in a forceful speech Saturday wrapping up a trip to Europe...

Mar 16, 2022 RELEASE 22-024 NASA’s Webb Reaches Alignment Milestone, Optics Working Successfully Following the completion of critical mirror alignment steps, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team expects that Webb’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the...