View photos The Rotary Club sells commemorative baseball caps in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2017, one day before the total solar eclipse. REUTERS/Brian Snyder More By Elly Park CARBONDALE, Ill. (Reuters) – The small southern Illinois town of Carbondale was revving up on Sunday to become eclipse central on […]
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Monday’s total solar eclipse will come to Americans in varying degrees of visual clarity, according to ABC News meteorologists, who say that the clearest skies are likely to appear in the Northwest in cities like San Francisco, Salem and Seattle. New York, and parts of the Tennessee Valley, around Nashville, […]
View photos About 12 million people living in 14 US states will be in the path of totality, such as here in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming (AFP Photo/GEORGE FREY) More Charleston (United States) (AFP) – On Monday, when a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States for […]
Some farsighted (or just plain lucky) investors bought shares of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) early on. They took a huge risk, but that risk paid off. Tesla stock is up nearly 1,400% since the company went public in 2010. Stocks like Tesla are a pretty rare species. And they’re not always […]
MOSCOW — In the days that followed Monday’s report in The New York Times that North Korea may have illicitly procured advanced Soviet-era rocket engines from Ukraine, the response out of the post-Soviet nation could best be described as trolling. Not long after the report was published, outraged Ukrainian social […]
WASHINGTON — The successful launch of a NASA communications satellite Aug. 18 is the final flight of the current generation of data relay spacecraft as well as for a venerable satellite bus. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 401 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 8:29 […]
The nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) awarded a grant Aug. 17 to Audacy that will enable the Silicon Valley startup to demonstrate its high data-rate radio on the International Space Station. Audacy, a company established in 2015 to create a commercial space-based communications network, plans […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has named Shawn Barnes to be assistant deputy chief of staff for space operations directorate, and Maj. Gen. Pamela Lincoln to be mobilization assistant to the deputy chief of staff for space operations. The Air Force has yet to name the deputy chief for the […]