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U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan

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Brownsville Is the Supercarrier Graveyard: Most US Navy Aircraft Carriers End Up in One Texas Port Town, Cut Into Steel for Bridges and Buildings

Americans picture a retired aircraft carrier becoming a museum, like the Midway or the Yorktown. Only a handful ever do. Most are towed to...

Harrison KassJuly 31, 2026

Space and Technology

In 1984 the Soviet Union sent Vega 2 to Venus, where the surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit under 90 times Earth’s pressure, hot enough to melt lead — then released a balloon that drifted for two days high in its clouds.

In December 1984 the Soviet Union launched Vega 2 on an unusual double mission: fly past Halley's Comet, then plunge into Venus, a world...

Harrison KassJuly 30, 2026

U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Jan. 5, 2012) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) operates in the Arabian Sea during sunset. John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations, theater security cooperation efforts and support missions for Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Navy photo by Yeoman 3rd Class James Stahl/Released)

Aerospace & Defense

China or Iran Don’t Need to Sink US Navy Aircraft Carriers: They Just Need to Light Them on Fire

The question people ask is whether China could sink an American supercarrier. It is the wrong question. A carrier that still floats but cannot...

Harrison KassJuly 29, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Spent Nearly Four Weeks Trying to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier. That Was the Point.

The USS America was not lost in combat. In 2005, nine years after leaving service, the Navy took the retired supercarrier about 250 miles...

Harrison KassJuly 29, 2026

Image of Virginia-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Is Designing Its Next Attack Submarine Around Drones and Seabed Missions. It Cannot Build the Ones It Has Fast Enough.

The Virginia-class attack submarine was designed after the Cold War as a cheaper, more versatile replacement for the Los Angeles boats, and it has...

Harrison KassJuly 28, 2026

Space and Technology

Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

NASA's Perseverance rover has found complex, ring-shaped carbon molecules sealed inside rocks in Mars's Jezero Crater, a basin that billions of years ago held...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

Space and Technology

Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Saturn's moon Titan looks uncannily like Earth: clouds, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, coastlines, dunes, and seasons. Then you learn the rain is liquid methane,...

Harrison KassJuly 27, 2026

Space and Technology

In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

NASA is about to try something it has never attempted: instead of another six-wheeled rover, it will fly a car-sized, plutonium-powered drone across the...

Harrison KassJuly 24, 2026

Space and Technology

NASA’s first space station weighed 77 tons and its launch nearly destroyed it, but engineers saved the thing with an improvised parasol, and when it finally fell out of orbit in 1979 a small Australian town fined the agency $400 for littering.

America's first space station was built out of leftover Apollo hardware — a modified Saturn V third stage, 77 tons and 118 feet long,...

Harrison KassJuly 24, 2026

Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the 2023 Turning Point Action Conference at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. By Gage Skidmore.

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Oil Traders Are Betting the Price Falls From Here — Even With the War and the Trouble at Hormuz Standing in the Way

Oil futures are signaling that traders expect prices to fall over the coming months, despite the war and the disruption around Hormuz. The bet...

Harrison KassJuly 23, 2026

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Aerospace & Defense

Brownsville Is the Supercarrier Graveyard: Most US Navy Aircraft Carriers End Up in One Texas Port Town, Cut Into Steel for Bridges and Buildings

Space and Technology

In 1984 the Soviet Union sent Vega 2 to Venus, where the surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit under 90 times Earth’s pressure, hot enough to melt lead — then released a balloon that drifted for two days high in its clouds.

Aerospace & Defense

China or Iran Don’t Need to Sink US Navy Aircraft Carriers: They Just Need to Light Them on Fire

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Spent Nearly Four Weeks Trying to Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier. That Was the Point.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Is Designing Its Next Attack Submarine Around Drones and Seabed Missions. It Cannot Build the Ones It Has Fast Enough.

Space and Technology

Inside Mars’s Jezero Crater, once a lake and river delta, NASA’s Perseverance rover found complex carbon molecules built from the same four elements as all life on Earth — yet no one can yet say whether biology or ordinary chemistry made them.

Space and Technology

Saturn’s moon Titan has rain, rivers, seas, dunes, and seasons just like Earth, but at 290 degrees below zero the rain is liquid methane, the rivers carve ice, and the mountains are water frozen harder than granite — and in 2028 NASA sends a drone to see if it hides life.

Space and Technology

In July 2028 NASA launches a car-sized, 1,000-pound nuclear drone toward Saturn’s moon Titan, a six-year, $3.35 billion trip to a world where the air is four times denser than Earth’s, gravity is one-seventh as strong, and flying is the easy part.

Space and Technology

NASA’s first space station weighed 77 tons and its launch nearly destroyed it, but engineers saved the thing with an improvised parasol, and when it finally fell out of orbit in 1979 a small Australian town fined the agency $400 for littering.

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Oil Traders Are Betting the Price Falls From Here — Even With the War and the Trouble at Hormuz Standing in the Way

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