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NASA’s new dark energy telescope can also spot killer asteroids
The telescope NASA is launching from Kennedy Space Center at the end of August was designed to chase the two things we understand least in the universe: the…
SpaceX plans to take T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon customers with its own ground network
The pitch that should worry America’s Big 3 wireless carriers didn’t come from a satellite. It came from a base station bolted to a Starlink dish on somebody’s…
EON wants to swap ocean fiber for space lasers, and it has $10.75M to try
The internet’s backbone is a bundle of glass strands lying on the seafloor, and pulling one up to fix it is about as convenient as it sounds. Hyperscalers…
Black holes may be blowing up stars, and the Milky Way’s chemistry is the evidence
The team behind a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal has a claim that sounds like it belongs in a lecture hall: some of the exploding stars you…
China just tested a 582-ton magnet, and the ITER comparison is the real story
A 582-ton superconducting magnet doesn’t get built for a science fair. China finished testing one, and the number that matters isn’t the weight. It’s that this thing stores…
SpaceX finally got a Starship back in one piece, and the booster still blew it
Thirteen full-scale Starship (official site) flights in, and SpaceX just did something it had never managed before: put a ship in the water without setting it on fire.…
James Webb caught a black hole mid-meal, 145 million light-years away
Astronomers rarely get to watch a black hole eat. This time, they did. The James Webb Space Telescope stared at the center of a distant galaxy for nearly…
Black Holes Might Not Destroy Information After All, if You Accept 7 Dimensions
Black holes aren’t supposed to destroy information. Quantum mechanics says it can’t happen. But Stephen Hawking’s own theory of black hole evaporation says it does. That contradiction has…