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Month: October 2021

NASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon in the name of planetary defense

CNN, EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY, MATTEL, DAMIAN KULASH, GEOFF SHELTON, SPORTS ULLUSTRATED, NASA By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from

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Chinese developer Fantasia can’t pay its debts. That’s stoking real estate fears

By Laura He, CNN Business A Chinese developer of luxury apartments missed $315 million in payments to lenders on Monday, sparking fears that financial strains in the country’s outsized property sector are spreading beyond the troubled Evergrande conglomerate. Fantasia Holdings, a Shenzhen-based developer, missed repaying $206 million worth of bonds that matured Monday, the company

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Las playas están vacías y los frágiles hábitats penden de un hilo mientras los equipos se apresuran a limpiar el derrame de petróleo en el sur de California

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Un tramo de la costa del sur de California se ha transformado por una fuga en una ducto que derramó más de 100.000 galones (casi 380.000 litros) de petróleo en el Océano Pacífico. Las playas de Huntington Beach, normalmente bulliciosas y que reciben a los turistas con un cartel que

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‘Terrifying’: Facebook whistleblower cites violence in Myanmar and Ethiopia, spying by China and Iran

By Caitlin Hu, CNN During much-anticipated testimony Tuesday before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen repeatedly pointed outside of the country for examples of how the social network could be used to dangerous ends — so much so that lawmakers wondered during the hearing if they should meet to specifically discuss

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