Space Exploration

Welcome to this edition of The Intelligence Brief. In this week’s newsletter, we are training our focus on 1) the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Phase One of its DRACO program, 2) the heavy-hitting space…

The Lyrids are an Earth Day meteor shower, peaking on the morning of April 22. Also, try the next morning, April 23. The moon is waxing – staying out longer after dark each night –…

Top Gear America took utility to the extreme in a $250,000 “SUV.” According to the manufacturer, it’s not actually a sport utility vehicle—it’s an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). Whatever you call it, SHERP the Ark 3400…

“Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.” -Robert Brault One of the most remarkable discoveries of the 20th Century came from studying the great spiral nebulae…

A flight zone has been selected for the helicopter to deploy Ingenuity, NASA’s miniature Mars helicopter, is nearly ready to make history with the first powered flight on another planet. The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Friday that…

Most scientists think the first interstellar visitor to our solar system has a natural explanation. Harvard professor Avi Loeb makes the case for an alien origin. In October 2017, scientists spotted an interstellar object in…

ALIEN life must exist on Mars or within the borders of our solar system, according to TV physicist Brian Cox, who is certain life may have evolved outside of Earth. Science has long tried to…

Cryptocurrency mining, or verifying cryptocurrency transactions on blockchain, requires a large amount of computing power. As the cryptocurrency craze attracts more people to join the miner community, high-speed computing chips are in short supply elsewhere.…

Are we alone? That’s one of the most fascinating questions in the universe, and yet no scientist is able to answer it. In fact, most astronomers have intentionally distanced themselves from work related to SETI, or search…

During his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, Wolf Cukier landed a two-month internship with NASA. So during the summer of 2019, he traveled down to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…

Elon Musk’s floating spaceport dream just took a big step closer to becoming reality, after it was revealed that two disused oil rigs recently acquired by SpaceX are set to be converted into offshore launch…

ON DECEMBER 6, a piece of an asteroid was found in the middle of the Australian desert. But this wasn’t an act of nature. It was a well-choreographed, meticulous transaction which took years of planning and…

When the first sign of intelligent life first visits us from space, it won’t be a giant saucer hovering over New York. More likely, it will be an alien civilization’s trash.  Avi Loeb, the chair…