Space

The Apollo photos really shouldn’t have been part of the big UFO drop. Last Friday (May 8), the Pentagon released its first batch of declassified “UFO files,” responding to a directive that President Donald Trump issued in February. Many of the 158 files focus on recent sightings by advanced U.S. military sensors — a “misshapen and uneven ball of white light&#8221…

SpaceX Starship Flight 12 will now launch on May 21 The 12th test flight of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket has slipped yet again, to Thursday evening (May 21). That’s the second delay in the past two days; SpaceX had originally targeted Tuesday (May 19) for the launch but pushed it to Wednesday (May 20). And now Wednesday is off the table as well. Starship Flight 12 is currently targeted…

Space industry aficionados have big plans. They talk about the not so distant future when hundreds of thousands or even millions of satellites orbit planet Earth, beaming the internet to the unconnected, processing data in orbital computer centers, generating solar power and more. But this ambitious vision, which many in the sector think will become reality sooner or later, worries atmospheric…