Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II
1 min read Night Sky Network Celebrates Artemis II Today, the crew of Artemis II reaches a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbit the far side of the Moon, roughly 4,000 miles above the lunar surface. You can watch this historic broadcast on NASA’sContinue Reading
Heather Futrell
Heather Futrell Heliophysics Program Executive Heather Futrell is a program executive (PE) in NASA’s Heliophysics Division (HPD), managing the HelioSwarm and SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) missions. She steers the development and implementation of these vital missions from design to orbit, ensuring effective collaboration between individuals at NASA HeadquartersContinue Reading
The Near Side of the Moon
A view of the near side of the Moon, the side we always see from Earth, as seen from the Orion spacecraft. NASA The astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft captured this photo of the Moon’s near side on April 4, 2026. The image features dark patches at center and right;Continue Reading
Artemis II Flight Day 6: Crew Ready for Lunar Flyby
(April 6, 2026) – Before going to sleep on flight day 5, the Artemis II crew snapped one more photo of the Moon, as it drew close in the window of the Orion spacecraft. Orion and the four humans aboard entered the lunar sphere of influence at 12:37 a.m. EDTContinue Reading
WATCH LIVE: Trumpenführers hold White House Easter Egg Roll as Iran war escalates
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here’s The Deal with Lisa Desjardins: https://to.pbs.org/41q6E8i Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcastsContinue Reading
Bolivians mark Holy Week with chili-rich culinary tradition
As in much of the Catholic world, the consumption of red meat is forbidden during Holy Week. In Sucre, Bolivia, however, the restriction has long been transformed into a celebration of ancestral ingredients, centered on ají, the chili pepper that dominates local cuisine. #bolivia #sucre #chili #holyweek #food #News #ReutersContinue Reading
New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime
OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years later, there is broad consensus that transnational criminals are attacking our citizens and businesses at unprecedented scale, and the White House has responded with aContinue Reading
The DOJ Misled a Judge About How It’s Using Voter Roll Data
The acting head of the DOJ’s voting section told a judge last week that the agency had not touched the nonpublic voter roll data it has collected. That wasn’t true.Continue Reading
Russia listed Ivory Coast as a “promising country” for influence operations — then ran four anti-Ukraine campaigns there in five months
A Russian disinformation network known as “the Company” ran four covert influence campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire between May and September 2024, according to France 24. Three of those targeted Ukraine’s newly opened embassy in Abidjan with fake army recruitment flyers, fabricated cultural events, and hundreds of paid articles placed in West African media outlets. TheContinue Reading
“There are no small literatures”: an American scholar on Ukraine’s battle for culture and truth
Giarelli is a senior lecturer in journalism and literature at Anglo-American University in Prague and the author of The Lands Between: A Central European Journey (danzig & unfried, 2025), a book about the cultures that took shape across the former Habsburg lands, ending with a chapter on Lviv. He wasContinue Reading
A Church’s Geothermal Experiment Could Pave the Way for Projects Across New York
High costs, crowding and less-than-ideal land conditions make geothermal installations in downstate New York difficult—but not impossible. By Lauren Dalban The Rev. Kurt Gerhard stood near the lectern in Christ Church Bronxville. Beneath him, a network of pipes stretched into a nearby parking lot, where boreholes have been drilled hundredsContinue Reading
Mark Carney Pledges $1B in Taxpayer Money for a ‘Carbon Bomb’ Project
“D o governments have to do more? Absolutely, … without question. There is a gap between ambition and policies that’s large. It needs to clos e.” – Mark Carney, United Nations Climate Action & Financial Special Envoy. Now-Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke those words in 2021, comment ing on news thatContinue Reading
Meet the Combustible Cartoon Character Who Wants to Make Kids Feel Sorry for Fossil Fuels
His name is ‘Fossi’. He’s depicted as a swirl of grey smoke. And he’s liable to lose his temper whenever his classmates blame him for the climate crisis. Fossi is the protagonist of Our Hidden Powers: The Big Switch, a children’s book launched last week by Swedish clean energy operatorContinue Reading