Hanneke Weitering, staff writer at Space.com, discusses SpaceX's launch of the Falcon 9 rocket that carried a Spanish imaging satellite and two demo Starlink broadband test satellites. With this technology, SpaceX hopes to provide high speed, low-cost energy across the globe.
There was a lot of excitement surrounding SpaceX's attempt to land its payload fairing, but it missed by a few hundred meters. Weitering was disappointed that she was unable to see the boosters land. SpaceX's ultimate goal is to create resuable rockets.
Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia still threatened parts of the Northeast on Sunday with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City, the National Hurricane Center said.
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday.
Tropical Storm Ophelia formed off the mid-Atlantic coast and was expected to bring heavy rain, storm surge and windy conditions over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Friday.
A storm churning in waters off the eastern U.S. has increased to tropical storm strength and is forecast to reach the North Carolina coast Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
