NASA’s Artemis program is edging toward a return to the moon — this time to stay — with its successful launch this week of an uncrewed rocket. Some Americans looking at the Earth-bound problems all around us might reasonably ask: Why? The answer is not just about the scientific ...
by Craig Holman Those spectacular pictures of galaxies forming at a time very near the origin of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope came at a pretty price: $9.7 billion, to be precise. It is fair to ask, “Is the Webb telescope project worth the price?” The James ...
by Jay Ambrose Lots of people hate Jeff Bezos because, you know, he is the richest man in the world, but I love the guy because, to begin with, I am a bibliophile and he started this incredible online bookstore where you could buy just about any work you wanted pretty darned cheap. You ...
by David Zurawik I was already tired of the gee-whiz coverage of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos going into space before Branson actually went there last Sunday (depending on your definition of space). But much of the coverage since has absolutely worn me out with its treatment of ...
When I first learned about black holes, I was 7 or 8 years old. They scared me so much that I genuinely thought a black hole would come and suck up my friends and family members and that we would all cease to exist. As time went on, I learned to accept black holes’ existence and the fact ...
WVU Today West Virginia University physicists are uncovering secrets of the sun’s turbulent surface in the lab. A new study featured on the cover of the March 2021 issue of Physics of Plasmas is the first published research from WVU’s PHASMA experiment in the Center for ...