Elon Musk’s role as President Trump’s cost-cutting czar and his immersion in right-wing politics appears to be diverting his attention from Tesla at a perilous moment for the electric car company. Tesla’s car sales fell 1 percent last year even as the global market for electric vehicles grew 25 percent. Mr. Musk has not addressed…
Astronomers on Tuesday said that the asteroid designated 2024 YR4 had become the most likely sizable space rock ever forecast to impact planet Earth. The object, first detected in December, is 130 to 300 feet long and expected to make a very close pass of the planet in 2032. Its odds of impacting Earth on…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, or NASEM, is an independent, 162-year-old nongovernmental agency tasked with investigating and reporting on a wide range of subjects. In recent years, diversity, equity and inclusion — collectively known as D.E.I. — have been central to its agenda. But the Academies’ priorities changed abruptly on Jan. 31….
EMILY Calandrelli could barely contain her delight about what was to come. The YouTube host and Netflix show star, known on social media as Space Gal, sat down with The U.S Sun at MIT, her alma mata, to talk about her forthcoming November 22 trip to space aboard one of Amazon owner Jeff Bezos’ rockets….
Once a ballistic missile is fired into the air, a defender has only minutes to identify its precise trajectory and try to shoot it down. The target, an enemy warhead, is inside an object about the size of a car that typically flies through the edge of space at many times the speed of sound….