California’s Creek Fire trapped hundreds of people in the forest as helicopters struggled to land in the smoke. Rescue missions continue. Morgan McFall-Johnsen 08 sep 2020
Rocket Lab just launched its first spacecraft, transforming a leftover piece of its rocket into a satellite that can carry missions to the moon or Venus Morgan McFall-Johnsen 05 sep 2020
Rocket Lab just launched its first spacecraft, transforming a leftover piece of its rocket into a satellite that can carry missions to the moon or Venus Morgan McFall-Johnsen 05 sep 2020
SpaceX says its Starlink satellite internet can download 100 megabits per second, and ‘space lasers’ transfer data between satellites Morgan McFall-Johnsen 04 sep 2020
SpaceX broke a record by launching 180 satellites in 1 month — accelerating Elon Musk’s project to blanket Earth in high-speed internet Morgan McFall-Johnsen 03 sep 2020
NASA just fired up the most powerful rocket booster ever built — a key part of its Space Launch System to return humans to the moon Dave Mosher, Morgan McFall-Johnsen 03 sep 2020
A collision in space revealed a black hole that physicists thought could never exist. The observatory that detected it cracked a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein. Morgan McFall-Johnsen 02 sep 2020
Pursuing herd immunity is a non-strategy that could cause mass death without boosting the economy. A Trump adviser may be pushing for it. Morgan McFall-Johnsen 01 sep 2020
Hurricane Laura has killed at least 4 people in the US and 23 in the Caribbean. It weakened to a tropical storm after hitting Louisiana. Sinéad Baker, Kieran Corcoran, Business Insider US, Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Rhea Mahbubani 28 aug 2020
Hurricane Laura jumped from Category 1 to Category 4 in a day. Here’s why hurricanes are now stronger, wetter, and more frequent. Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Aylin Woodward 27 aug 2020
