Daily Archives: Dec 15, 2025
Inside the F/A-XX: Engineering the Navy’s Next Stealth Carrier Fighter
"Nothing in the Joint Force demonstrates combat power from the sea quite like a Carrier Strike Group," Admiral Daryl Caudle informed legislators recently, highlighting the pressure behind the U.S. Navy's F/A‑XX program. That pressure is running head-to-head with political resistance, industrial constraints, and a competitive strategy with the Air...
Racing to Meet 3I/ATLAS: The Engineering Hurdle of a Lifetime
It is fantastically unlikely for an object from another star system to enter our cosmic neighborhood less likely still to have a hope of catching up to it. And 3I/ATLAS, just the third known interstellar visitor, is already tearing through the solar system at almost 60 kilometers per second,...
The 36-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole That Redefines Cosmic Limits
It is 5 billion light-years away, quiet but mind-boggling in size a black hole with 36.3 billion solar masses. Located at the center of the lensing galaxy SDSS J1148+1930, more popularly referred to as the Cosmic Horseshoe, it might be the largest black hole to have been confirmed to...
