A balloon recovered off the coast of Alaska had been in the ocean for “well over a year,” the Pentagon said Friday. The balloon was discovered floating in the ocean by commercial fisherman in late-February. The fishermen shared photos of the suspicious object with law enforcement, who were concerned it could be another Chinese spy … Read more
A balloon intercepted by fighter aircraft over Utah on Friday was a “likely hobby balloon” and has since left United States airspace, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Saturday. The “small balloon” was allowed to continue to fly above the U.S. after being intercepted Friday morning at an altitude of 43,000 to 45,000 … Read more
It seems almost too comical to be true, but this is the world we live in. One year after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon that ignited a national frenzy, the military has spotted another balloon in American skies. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve Officials are tracking a … Read more
It’s been crazy cold this week, even down where I live in Louisiana, thanks to an outbreak of a polar vortex. This frigid air is bad for all kinds of things, including football helmets, apparently. But it’s actually a great time to demonstrate one of the basic ideas in science: the ideal gas law. You … Read more
A new NASA experiment will take to the skies on a balloon, scanning the space between the stars of our galaxy and listening for cosmic ingredients to understand how the Milky Way evolved over time. First Full-Color Images From Webb Space Telescope GUSTO, or Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory, is launching no earlier than Thursday … Read more
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NASA is preparing to begin an experiment named GUSTO — short for Galactic / Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory — to gather data that will be used to create a 3D map of a portion of the Milky Way Galaxy. The GUSTO experiment involves a telescope that will float 120,000 feet over Antarctica on a … Read more
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s Defense Ministry says a Chinese military surveillance balloon was spotted in the Taiwan Strait, as well as a large-scale dispatch of military aircraft and ships. The ministry said the balloon passed southwest of the northern port city of Keelung on Thursday night, then continued east before disappearing, possibly into the Pacific … Read more
It was absolutely probably the most weird disaster of the Biden administration: America’s top-of-the-line jet fighters being despatched as much as shoot down, of all issues, a balloon – a Chinese language spy balloon that was floating throughout america, which had the nation and its politicians in a tizzy. Now, seven months later, Gen. Mark … Read more
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Beijing, China, June 18, 2023. Leah Millis | Afp | Getty Photographs BEIJING — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Beijing Sunday on his first journey to China beneath the Biden administration. Delayed by greater than 4 months, Blinken’s journey marks a uncommon high-level assembly … Read more
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Protection Ministry stated Saturday that it has detected an object in Polish airspace that flew in from the path of Belarus, and that it is most likely an statement balloon. The ministry tweeted that radar contact with the thing was misplaced close to Rypin, a city in central Poland 143 kilometers … Read more