OMM warns of El Niño, but the world ignores the structural risk
António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the Organização das Nações Unidas, describes the current El Niño as being "supersized" before our eyes.
By Klaus Berger ·
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Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next "great observatory," launches into space
The launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was a spectacle worthy of its own chapter in history.
By Grant Colby ·
NASA's new telescope to test whether scientists have dark energy wrong
The launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, 2026, was undeniably spectacular—a powerful reminder that humanity’s greatest ambition remains pointing upward.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Roman Telescope confirms US dominance from Kennedy Space Center
The spectacle of the launch—a SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on August 30, 2026—is framed by the usual mix…
By Tom Beckwith ·
Roman’s billions distract from the grid that buckles under peak load
The launch of the Nancy Grace Roman telescope on August 30, 2026, is billed as humanity finally solving its cosmic homework.
By Imani Sutton ·
Trump announces Space Academy to train US Space Force officers
The sheer scale of what was accomplished by the Artemis II crew—the first humans to reach lunar orbit since 1972, as detailed by ABC Color—is a matter for genuine national pride.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Adenot's spacewalk proves competence matters more than rhetoric on ISS
The narrative emerging from the International Space Station this week reads like an adventure novel, complete with tales of “intense joy” and astronauts calling their grueling…
By Tom Beckwith ·
Florida's primaries show state legislature controls who gets to govern
The American political system, particularly in the South, has become less a mechanism for representation and more an elaborate machine for consolidating power—a process that is…
By Sophie Naimi ·
NASA's Max Power at Kennedy Space Center: spectacle over substance
The American tendency toward self-congratulation has always been its most predictable and least useful export.
By Emilio Quesada ·
A vest tested on the Artemis I mission blocked some radiation exposure
The sheer volume of technical detail surrounding the AstroRad vest—the hexagonal tessellated rods of HDPE, the 26-kilogram initial weight reduced to 16 kilograms—is designed to impress.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Recap: Connecticut sees partial solar eclipse. When is the next one?
You read about Connecticut residents viewing a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday afternoon—a lovely picture of people gathering at Hammonasset Beach State Park or outside Western…
By Ruth Behrens ·
ISS emergency reveals how Mike Fincke's exit exposes NASA hubris
Mike Fincke’s departure from NASA isn't a retirement; it's an exit sign on a dangerously overextended enterprise.
By Maya Ellison ·
Once-abandoned Spanish village becomes NASA's eclipse hotspot
The sheer volume of attention surrounding Villalibado—a tiny village in Burgos, Spain—is breathtaking, if you are tracking the money trail.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Voyager 2 and Georgia Power prove life runs on depletion curves
The news cycle loves a good "miracle," especially when it comes from 20+ billion kilometers away.
By Imani Sutton ·
The true measure of power is in US Spacewalk 96 maintenance
The true measure of a nation’s resolve is not found in its pronouncements, but in the persistent expenditure of resources toward objectives that yield no immediate political return.
By Tom Beckwith ·
NASA trading proven MRAPs for Tesla Cybertrucks shows weakness
You watch the news and you see competence—or at least, you used to.
By Grant Colby ·