Daily Archives: Dec 13, 2025

In space travel, the difference between liftoff and a scrub is seconds. "Hold, hold, hold. We have aborted launch today due to airspace concerns," echoed out over Vandenberg Space Force Base with only 45 seconds left on the countdown, a haunting reminder that even the most advanced rockets remain...

One of the seismometer stations near Nay Pyi Taw measured ground motion data that were "directly convincing of supershear rupture for the period between the weak, dilational P wave initial arrival and the appearance of big shear offset of the fault," said Thorne Lay. "That was really clear and...

"Wow." That single word, captured on an air traffic control recording when Delta Flight 590 attempted its unsuccessful takeoff, encapsulates the collective holding of breath of several hundred passengers and crew members on two planes in Mexico City. At that moment when disaster and salvation were separated by as...