Hamas leader’s death prompts celebratory posts from Iran’s Persian critics
– Ismail Haniyeh, the political chief of Hamas, was assassinated in Tehran on Wednesday in a reported Israeli airstrike. – Many Iranian critics of the country’s regime expressed celebration on social media over Haniyeh’s death. They posted mocking hashtags in Persian and supported Israel on Instagram. – These critics often oppose Iran’s funding of groups […]
SpaceX Preparing to Launch Billionaire Adventurer for First Ever Private Spacewalk
SpaceX is preparing to launch billionaire Jared Isaacman aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in the next few weeks for the first ever private spacewalk mission called Polaris Dawn. The launch date has been rescheduled several times, most recently to no earlier than August 19 due to another SpaceX rocket explosion in July and traffic at […]
NASA images unlock complex history of two near-Earth asteroids
NASA’s DART spacecraft took high-resolution images of the asteroids Dimorphos and Didymos moments before impacting Dimorphos in September 2022. Analysis of these images has provided insights into the formation and history of these two near-Earth asteroids. Didymos is estimated to have formed around 12.5 million years ago, while Dimorphos likely formed more recently around 300,000 […]