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The Carnival of Space 607 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Hayabusa2 Fires an Anti-Tank Warhead at Asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft had to break up the surface material by shooting it...

Video’s and pictures from Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory show metal wall and roof framing. The factory building and site appear on track for May 2019 completion. Tesla will keep up the...

Self-driving car expert Brad Templeton does not believe that Tesla is close to having its software ready for full self-driving cars. Brad has lengthy assessment of the current capabilities of the...

SpaceX had successfully landed the Falcon Heavy center core but the center core fell over and into the sea due to large waves.

Medium voltage (about 12000 volt) DC power distribution that is reliable and affordable is the key to having the power for futuristic technology like railguns and electromagnetic launchers.

Elon measures the fundamental good of Tesla should be measured by the number of years by which it accelerates the transition to sustainable transport.

LIGO and Virgo are publicly announcing candidate gravitational wave triggers with a high likelihood of astrophysical origin within minutes of the waves arriving in the three detectors (LIGO Hanford,...

Trucks are the backbone of the supply-chain delivery system. 70% of goods are delivered by truck. The U.S. trucking industry generated $700.3 billion in economic activity in 2017. Self-driving trucks...

There is no fundamental restrictions to increasing the baseline length of radio telescope arrays. A global array with baseline lengths up to 10 000 km gives an angular resolution of 4 mas @ 21cm and...

OpenAI software has defeated a world champion DOTA team, 2-0. Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It has a steep learning curve...

Tiger Woods has won the Masters Golf Tournament. The response of my 13-year son to this was…What? He did? Isn’t he old? It is not just that Tiger Woods is 43, which is older for sports...

Like the Energizer Bunny Elon Musk says the Tesla Model 3 will keep going and going for a million-mile life. This would be five times more than regular cars which are usually fail before 200,000...

Israel SpaceIL Has Funding for Second Moon Landing Attempt

Stratolaunch Systems Corporation, founded by Paul G. Allen, today successfully completed the first flight of the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, the Stratolaunch.

Two exoplanets might be orbiting the nearest star the red dwarf Proxima Centauri that’s about 4.24 light-years away. It would not be in the habitable zone where water is liquid. Mario Damasso of...

Qualcomm said it plans to begin testing its new Cloud AI 100 chip with partners such as Microsoft Corp later this year, with mass production likely to begin in 2020. Qualcomm’s new chip is designed...

Fully occupited electric VTOL flying cars are more efficient than regular cars that are half occupied and are more efficient for trips over 22 miles.

Advancing toward a whole new hybrid field of protein-DNA nanotechnology with capabilities beyond DNA and Protein nanotechnology alone.

Japanese researchers are creating a new field of science called cluster molecular electronics.

Around 2030, a space-based gravitational array will join other ground and space-based telescopes in exploring the secrets of the universe like the recently imaged black hole.

Star Wars will try to win back fans this Christmas with the Star Wars Episode IX.

UBER’s IPO is seeking to raise $10 billion. The SEC papers for the IPO provide extensive information about UBER and Ridesharing. UBER wants to eventually compete for nearly the entire global...

The payload fairings, two side boosters and the center core were landed and will be reused. This means that SpaceX will be able to reuse 92% of this Falcon Heavy launch. Only the roughly $7.5 million...

The second SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launch and first commercial launch and all three booster landings were fully successful. They launched the Arabsat 6A communications satellite from Kennedy Space...

Sandy Munro of Munro & Associates talks more about Tesla car technology, future plans and what Tesla is doing in China. Munro specializes in design for manufacturability and gets paid to tear...

SpaceIL’s unmanned, privately-funded “Beresheet” spacecraft attempted a historic lunar landing! Unfortunately in the last moments, there were issues with the main engine and they...

The power of Shale Oil 2.0 to increase oil production means the US can provide growing world demand and gives the US an economic win if it squeezes Iran out as an oil supply competitor.

HSBC sees China's GDP growth hitting 6.7 percent by the fourth quarter and sees a sustainable recovery. a US-China Trade deal overcomes a key hurdle with an agreement to create enforcement offices.

SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be able to launch a 15-meter LUVOIR space telescope which could be used to find signs of Alien life on exoplanets

Black holes are a critical part of the formation and evolution of galaxies and new radio telescopes will be needed for us to learn how black holes interact with stars and galaxies. Dr. Kristina...

Eight radio telescopes were used to image a black hole. They were ALMA, APEX, the IRAM 30-meter telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano, the...

Eight radio telescopes were used to image to capture the first image of a black hole but there are more radio telescopes that will be added to array to improve future images. As more telescopes are...

SpaceX delayed the second launch of a Falcon Heavy and the first commercial launch to tomorrow. Standing down from today’s Falcon Heavy launch attempt; next opportunity is tomorrow, April 11. —...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged through international collaboration — was designed to capture images of a black hole. Today, in...

The US Energy Information Agency had its Annual Energy Outlook for 2019. The middle projection is for the US to reach 15 million barrels per day of oil production. This would be more than Saudi...

ExxonMobil revised its Permian Basin (Texas and New Mexico) growth plans to produce more than 1 million oil-equivalent barrels per day by as early as 2024 – an increase of nearly 80 percent and a...

Venezuela’s oil production has dropped by 40% since the end of 2018 and is now one-third of its 2012-2014 level. OPEC says Venezuela only produced 960,000 barrels per day in March. This is down...

China digs up coal in the west and then sends it east thousands of kilometers away. Every day on just one rail line there are 226 trains. Each train has 20,000 tons of coal. Each coal train is 2...

There was a recent updated analysis of various life-cycle energy impact measurements for fossil fuels, nuclear, solar and wind. Lifetime CO2 Emissions per Kilowatt-Hour Solar is 50% worse than...

Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk is talking to Israel about tunnels provided by the Boring Company. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed his government was in talks with Elon Musk about...

1. The Venus Transit – Beresheet, first Israeli spaceship to the moon made a successful Lunar capture maneuver. Above is a picture taken by Beresheet of the far side of the moon during the...

There are huge fears that in the future most people in the world will not get richer and many people will become unemployed and slide backwards into poverty. Many think that Denmark and Sweden are...

Next-generation supercomputing capability promises major discoveries, scientific advancements, and new applications in research By Rob Johnson “Exascale systems are the fastest computers humans have...

People are very worried about rising income inequality in many countries and across the world. There is a growing perception that social mobility across generations has declined and that only the...

Reaction Engines is working towards air-breathing space planes and hypersonic airplanes. They have successfully tested their critical pre-cooler technology at the temperature conditions it would...

Billboards seem to have been around forever. Putting forward their offering for anyone passing to see. When they were invented they almost reigned supreme. They were big, they were noticeable and...

Europe’s 2nd biggest gold mine could be about to make early investors rich. This story begins over 2,000 years ago when the Romans dug up $16.8 billion in gold in Romania… Using hammers and...

Fiat Chrysler and Tesla have a deal where Tesla will sell carbon emission credits to Fiat Chrysler. The deal could be worth over $500 million to Tesla over 2 to 3 years. This will enable Fiat...

SpaceX has announced a launch target of May 2019 for the first group of operational Starlink satellites. SpaceX needs to launch about 2200 Starlink satellites by April 2024 to be in compliance with...

Big Pharma is trying to justify charging multiple millions for each patient cured of certain diseases. This is not about having the money to pay for more medical research so that more cures can be...