Matías S. Zavia

116 published news

November 2024

1. 20 November
2. Elon Musk Is Ready to Colonize Mars. His Chosen Form of Government: A Direct Democracy, With Some Nuances
3. 18 November
4. Wind Used to Be the Darling of Renewables, But There’s a New Source on the Block: Solar Has Overtaken Wind in Record Time in the U.S.
5. There’s a Backup Plan to Reverse Global Warming: Launching Diamonds Into Space. But It’ll Cost More Than $200 Billion
6. 17 November
7. Iceland Pulls Ahead of the Crowd in the Race to Put Solar Panels in Space
8. 15 November
9. Everything Is Ready for Starship’s Sixth Launch: SpaceX Will Push the Spacecraft to the Limit With Multiple Re-entry Modifications
10. Artemis Faces Crisis as Rumors of SLS Cancellation Swirl and NASA Remains Silent on Orion Shield Issues
11. 08 November
12. China’s Einstein Probe Spots Extremely Bright Blinking Object. It May Have Discovered a New Transient Event
13. 06 November
14. Amazon Planned to Connect Its New Data Center to a Nuclear Power Plant. Regulators Had Other Plans

October 2024

1. 31 October
2. The Perseverance Rover Is Emerging From the Martian Crater Where It Landed for the First Time. The Views Are Breathtaking
3. 29 October
4. After the Starliner Fiasco, Boeing Reportedly Looks to Sell Off Parts of Its Struggling Space Division
5. A Meteorite That Boiled the Oceans About 3 Billion Years Ago Was a 'Fertilizer Bomb' for Early Life, Study Finds
6. 25 October
7. The Pentagon Has Its Eyes on a Company That Wants to Install Thousands of Solar Panels in a Place With Constant Sunlight: Space
8. 22 October
9. Elon Musk Says the Government Asked SpaceX to ‘Kidnap’ Two Seals to See if They Would Experience Stress From Rocket Launches
10. 21 October
11. France Has a Striking Plan to Recycle Some of Its Nuclear Waste: Turn It Into Forks, Doorknobs, and Saucepans
12. 18 October
13. SpaceX Is Replacing Boeing: NASA Cancels Starliner Spacecraft Flight Contracted for 2025
14. After Years of Waiting, NASA Has Finally Unveiled the Spacesuit for Its Moon Return. It Features an Unexpected Collaborator: Prada
15. 16 October
16. The U.S. Has Produced Its First Plutonium Pit Since 1989. The Goal: Refurbishing All Its Nuclear Warheads
17. 15 October
18. After 20 Years of Waiting, NASA Has Successfully Launched One of the Largest Spacecraft in History. Its Mission: Searching for Life on Europa
19. 14 October
20. There’s Video Proof That Starship Successfully Landed at Its Target Location Before Exploding
21. 11 October
22. SpaceX Leaves Rivals Speechless With the First Successful Landing of the Starship With ‘Half a Centimeter Accuracy’
23. 10 October
24. Scientists Thought the Milky Way Was Part of Laniakea. It Turns Out That an Even Larger Superstructure Controls Its Movements
25. 09 October
26. SpaceX Always Gets What It Wants: The FAA Has Moved Up Its Most Controversial Starship Launch to This Sunday
27. 04 October
28. Boeing’s Last Hope in Space: If the Vulcan Rocket Is Successful, It’ll Have a Chance to Compete With SpaceX
29. 02 October
30. A New Problem in the Falcon 9 Rocket Has Paralyzed SpaceX Launches at the Worst Possible Time
31. Elon Musk Says All of the World’s Energy Will Come From Solar Panels Once People Understand the ‘Kardashev Scale’
32. 01 October
33. Minnesota Installed Solar Panels on Two Large Fields. Five Years Later, They’re a Haven for Bees
34. Too Much of a Good Thing? The Amount of Solar Panels in Australia Almost Caused the Country's Electric Grid to Collapse

September 2024

1. 30 September
2. As China Makes Progress, NASA Is Facing Several Challenges in Its Efforts to Return to the Moon. Tensions Are Rising
3. 28 September
4. China Scientists Have Solved the Biggest Issue of Silicon Solar Panels by Creating One That’s 100% Recycled
5. Oxford University Researchers Have Created an Ultra-Thin Perovskite Film That Can Turn Any Object Into a Solar Panel
6. 26 September
7. The Spacecraft That Will Rescue Boeing Astronauts Is Prepared for Liftoff. With It, SpaceX Will Debut a New Launch Tower
8. 25 September
9. China Plans to House 5,000 Scientists Worldwide to Its Upcoming Lunar Base. The First Arrivals Are Scheduled for 2035
10. 23 September
11. Microsoft Will Reopen a Nuclear Power Plant That Has Been Closed Since 2019 to Power Its AI
12. Elon Musk’s Warning to the U.S. Government Is True: China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship
13. 22 September
14. NASA Manages to Get Voyager 1 to Switch On Its Inactive Engines for the First Time in Decades, Ensuring the Spacecraft Lives to See Another Day
15. 20 September
16. An Italian Winery Installed Solar Panels in Its Vineyards and Made an Unexpected Discovery: They Improve the Quality of Wine
17. 19 September
18. NASA Has Finally Solved the Mystery of the Spiders on Mars. It Recreated Them on Earth
19. 18 September
20. A Million Miles Without Refueling: Why No One Is Making Cars Out of Thorium, the World’s ‘Most Powerful Fuel’
21. 17 September
22. Scientists Have Been Searching for Planet Nine for Years. More Than 3,000 New Simulations Suggest That It’s Not a Planet and Never Was
23. 15 September
24. Bill Gates Is Building the 'Most Advanced Nuclear Facility in the World' in a Small Wyoming Town of 2,000 People
25. 13 September
26. A Billionaire Has Just Ventured Into Territory Previously Explored Only by NASA. It’s a Warning About What the Future of Space Exploration May Hold
27. 12 September
28. Polaris Dawn Is a Success: SpaceX’s First Commercial Spacewalk Is Game-Changing
29. 10 September
30. SpaceX Makes History Again With Polaris Dawn. It Launched Four Civilians Into the Van Allen Radiation Belt
31. 09 September
32. A Bittersweet Ending for Boeing’s Starliner: Its Return Flight Was Nearly Perfect, Except for a Few New Issues
33. An Ode to The World’s Unluckiest Astronaut: He Trained for 14 Years to Go Into Space, Only to Be Replaced by an Actress
34. 05 September
35. Elon Musk’s Starship Opened an Unprecedented Hole in the Ionosphere, Russian Researchers Say
36. 03 September
37. NASA Has Successfully Stopped the ‘Strange Noise’ Coming From Starliner’s Loudspeaker. The Spacecraft Is Set to Return to Earth Soon
38. 02 September
39. Starliner Has a Plan to Return to Earth: If It Fails to Land in the Desert, Boeing Will Probably Never Fly Again
40. Do Fridge Magnets Increase Energy Consumption? Here’s What Manufacturers Say

August 2024

1. 31 August
2. Cobalt Is Responsible for the High Cost of Batteries. Japanese Scientists Have Discovered a More Cost-Effective Alternative
3. ESA and NASA Sent Two Spacecraft to the Sun. Together, They Successfully Solved a Long-Standing Puzzle: Why Solar Wind Doesn’t Cool Down
4. 30 August
5. SpaceX’s Riskiest Flight Is Set to Launch Soon: How to Watch the Polaris Dawn Mission Live
6. 29 August
7. U.S. Temporarily Halts SpaceX Flights. The Reason: A Failed Landing After 267 Successful Trips
8. 27 August
9. The Starliner Spacecraft Isn’t Just a Big Embarrassment: It’s Become a Huge Financial Loss for Boeing

July 2024

1. 17 July
2. We Have Two Hours to Protect the Electric Grid From an Extreme Solar Storm. The Recent Auroras Prove It
3. 12 July
4. China Is Reinforcing Its Space Station Against Potential Impacts Following the Explosion of a Russian Satellite
5. 11 July
6. The James Webb Space Telescope Discovers a Blue Planet With Various Problems. The Weirdest One: It Smells Like Rotten Eggs
7. 10 July
8. NASA Has Discovered X-Shaped Structures in the Ionosphere That Scientists Are Struggling to Explain
9. 09 July
10. After Invading Ukraine, Russia Threatened to Move to Its Own Space Station. It Just Approved Its Launch
11. 'Everything That Could Go Wrong Went Wrong.' After Four Years, ESA’s Finally Ready to Launch the Ariane 6 Rocket
12. 07 July
13. The Webb Telescope Has Observed a Planet With Weather So Extreme That Clouds Are Made of Rock and Nights Reach 1112 Degrees Fahrenheit
14. 04 July
15. The Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Failed Before It Was Ever Turned On. ITER Will Need a Decade to Implement Changes
16. 03 July
17. Space Pioneer Was Once Called 'China's SpaceX.' It Just Mistakenly Launched a Rocket Near a Big City
18. 02 July
19. Scientists Had Theories About the Origin of the Moon. Now, Samples Taken by a Chinese Satellite Have Cast Doubt on Them
20. The ‘4 Ms’: Google’s Plan for AI Companies to Consume 1,000 Times Less Power

June 2024

1. 28 June
2. Astronauts on the ISS Had to Take Shelter After a Huge Russian Satellite Broke Into 100 Pieces for Unknown Reasons
3. NASA's Perseverance Rover Hasn’t Just Collected Rocks on Mars: Its Tubes Contain Another Valuable Sample
4. 27 June
5. SpaceX Is Building a Spacecraft to Destroy the International Space Station—at NASA’s Request
6. 26 June
7. Europe Has Installed So Many Renewable Energy Sources That It Now Faces an Unusual Problem: Electricity Is Now Too Cheap
8. It's Not a Mistake: China Continues to Endanger People by Allowing Rockets to Fall From the Sky After Completing Their Missions
9. 23 June
10. France Connected Its First Solar Panels to the Grid in 1992. Three Decades Later, They Still Have an Astonishing Power Output
11. 21 June
12. Japan Is at the Forefront of Efforts to Clean Up Space Trash. It Just Deployed a 'Space Garbage Truck' Next to an Old Rocket
13. For the First Time in History, Astronomers Are Seeing a Black Hole Waking Up in Real-Time
14. Scientists Have Been Trying to Understand This Star for 50 Years. The Webb Telescope Figured It Out Quickly: It Wasn’t a Star
15. 20 June
16. NASA Continues to Deliver Bad News for Artemis, Its Mission to the Moon: Now There's a Problem With the Sun
17. 19 June
18. The New Energy Era Is Here: Seven Chinese Solar Companies Now Produce More Capacity Than Oil Companies
19. 17 June
20. NASA Will Send Two Astronauts on a Spacewalk Outside the ISS to Search for Living Organisms
21. The Day Jeff Bezos Came Across the Coordinates of the Apollo 11 Rocket Crash Site Online and Went to Go Look for It
22. 14 June
23. A SpaceX Flight That Only Lasted for Three Days Brought Its Astronauts Back Genetically Younger
24. 13 June
25. The ISS Said an Astronaut Was in 'Critical Condition' on Its Radio. It Forgot to Say It Was a Drill
26. Boeing Stated That Starliner Could Safely Withstand Up to Five Helium Leaks. It Just Found the Fifth One
27. 12 June
28. After the Latest Launch, Elon Musk Is Convinced That Starship Will Reach Mars in 3 Years. How Realistic Is It?
29. The First Diamond Solar Panels Have Introduced a Material That Surpasses the Limitations of Photovoltaic Systems
30. Starship Has 9 Months to Complete NASA's Lunar Contract. Against All Odds, SpaceX Believes It’s Doable
31. 10 June
32. Spaceflights Have Always Experienced Radio Outages During Re-entry. Starlink Has Now Made Them Obsolete
33. Elon Musk Made the Right Call When He Decided to Scrap Starship's Carbon Fiber Exterior and Replace It With Steel
34. 07 June
35. Boeing’s Starliner Successfully Transported Astronauts to the ISS Despite Having Five of Its Thrusters Fail
36. SpaceX Has Just Left Its Competition in the Dust: Starship Is One Step Away From Becoming a 100% Reusable Rocket
37. 06 June
38. Starship Successfully Completes Fourth Flight. SpaceX Celebrates That It Didn't Explode
39. Boeing Identifies Two Leaks on the Starliner, Which Has Astronauts Onboard Headed to the Space Station
40. What To Expect From Starship’s Fourth Launch: Here’s Everything SpaceX Will Test for the First Time in Today's Flight
41. 05 June
42. A Red Supergiant and the Solstice Moon: The Two Biggest Night Sky Events for June
43. 04 June
44. Two Days Before Starship’s Next Launch, Elon Musk Remains Worried: ‘We Are Not Resilient to Loss of a Single Tile’

May 2024

1. 31 May
2. SpaceX Has Realized That Starship Is Too Heavy to Land, So It’s Going to Try Something New in a Few Days
3. 29 May
4. A Historic Milestone in Power Generation: Renewables Have Reduced the Use of Fossil Fuels for the First Time
5. 28 May
6. NASA Had Two Major Short-Term Goals, but China Is Threatening to Beat Them Both
7. For the First Time Since the 1970s, It’s Not Clear if the U.S. Can Actually Send Astronauts to the Moon
8. 25 May
9. A Coal Billionaire Is Building the World’s Largest Renewable Energy Farm
10. 24 May
11. The Electrical Grid is Suffering: Not Because of Electric Cars, but Rather Because of the Huge AI Demand
12. 23 May
13. SpaceX Has Just Made the First Video Call With an iPhone Connected Directly to a Starlink Satellite
14. 22 May
15. The North Pole Is Moving So Fast, It's Forcing Many Airports to Rename Their Runways
16. NASA Has Sent a Spacecraft to Observe a Dead Robot on Mars to See How It Collects Dust
17. 21 May
18. Six Months Later, Voyager 1 Is Finally Sending Back Scientific Data After NASA Completes Historic Rescue
19. 20 May
20. Viral Video of Fiery Object Wasn't Actually a Meteorite, European Space Agency Says
21. 18 May
22. California Has Defeated the Sun: 20% of the Power It Uses at Night Comes From Solar Panels
23. 17 May
24. This American Lake Is Actually One of the Largest Batteries in the World
25. 16 May
26. Sunspot AR 3664 Has Grown as Large as the One That Caused the Carrington Event 165 Years Ago
27. 15 May
28. Elon Musk Reveals Details About Starship’s Next Flight. It’s Not Good News for Those With Little Patience
29. How and When to See Comet A3 As It Passes By Earth (and Possibly Its Live Disintegration)
30. 14 May
31. A Family of Farmers Found Carbon Fiber Debris on Their Land. It Turned Out to Be Part of a Spacecraft
32. 13 May
33. Latest Images From Dark Energy Camera Show 'God’s Hand' Trying to Catch a Nearby Galaxy
34. 09 May
35. Japanese Researchers Have Found the Holy Grial to Produce Cheaper, More Effective Green Hydrogen
36. 08 May
37. There's Something Strange About China's New Moon Base Concept Video
38. 07 May
39. Caltech Researchers Find ‘Strongest Evidence Yet’ of an Unknown Planet in Our Solar System
40. 05 May
41. Californians Installed Too Many Solar Panels. It's Causing a Problem for Their Electrical Grid
42. No More Gibberish: NASA Makes Progress on Fixing Its Voyager 1 Spacecraft After Months of Agony