NYers joined by ex-Israeli hostage, parents of current captive in Central Park: ‘Hell on Earth’
With no ceasefire agreement in sight, hundreds of people, including former Israeli hostages and parents of those still being held, gathered in Central Park on Sunday to call on Hamas to release the remaining prisoners. At the “Bring them home now” rally, protesters demanded the release of up to 100 hostages being held by Hamas, […]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft lands back on Earth without crew
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed back on Earth early Saturday morning, but NASA will keep its two test pilots in space until next year because of concerns that a return journey would be too dangerous. Starliner parachuted into the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico six hours after leaving the International Space Station, landing at […]
Earth hits second consecutive summer heat record
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Boeing Starliner undocks from space station, heads back to Earth unmanned as crew stays behind
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft detached from the International Space Station on Friday evening and returned to New Mexico without its crew. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are scheduled to remain on the space station through February. They will return to Earth with a SpaceX crew that will likely launch to the ISS later this month, with […]
NASA makes discovery ‘as important as gravity’ about Earth — and possibly life on other planets
NASA scientists have discovered an electric field that surrounds Earth's atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity and may offer clues about the possibility of life on other planets. A team of NASA scientists has detected the first bipolar electric field on an orbiting rocket 150 miles above Earth's atmosphere. Space agencies. According to NASA, […]
Dow hits record high before falling back to Earth
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high on Monday before turning negative but still closing at a record high as investors await inflation data for clues about the path the Federal Reserve might take in cutting interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 245 points to an intraday record of 41,420 […]
Dems put on the fakest show on Earth at DNC with Kamala Harris’ shameless shtick as a tough-on-crime moderate
Something funny happened at last week’s Democratic National Convention: Not only did Kamala Harris steal Donald Trump’s no-tax-on-tips policy, but her party morphed before our very eyes into the MAGA Republicans. Democrats who have in the past denigrated the American flag as racist and sometimes set it on fire were drowned in a sea of […]
Irish-Scottish rock formation may be rare record of ‘snowball Earth’ period | Geology
Rock formations across Ireland and Scotland could be a valuable record of Snowball Earth, a key moment in Earth’s history when the planet was covered in ice. The study found that the Port Askyg Formation, a layer of rock up to 1.1 kilometres thick, likely formed during the Sturtian Ice Age between 662 and 720 […]
Boeing vs. SpaceX: Which will bring stranded NASA astronauts back to Earth?
Ron Epstein, senior aerospace and defense analyst at BofA, discusses on The Big Money Show whether it’s time to separate Boeing’s civilian and defense businesses. Plans to bring them home American astronauts left behind While a launch from the International Space Station is still up in the air, NASA has said it may ask SpaceX […]
Trump Calls For US To Wipe Iran ‘Off The Face Of The Earth’ If It Assassinates Him
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the United States to destroy Iran if he were to be assassinated. US authorities reportedly knew about a suspected Iranian plot to kill President Trump before the assassination attempt at one of his rallies, but it is not known whether that plot is linked to the assassination […]