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Dave Adalian

Webb telescope struck by bigger-than-expected micrometeroid

A micrometeoroid strike has damaged a segment of the Webb telescope's primary mirror. But Webb is still performing beyond mission parameters.

Dave Adalian

June 9, 2022

Self-driving taxis take to the streets of San Francisco

Phoenix, Arizona, already has self-driving taxis, and now San Francisco, California, becomes the 2nd major U.S. city to have them.

Dave Adalian

June 7, 2022

New record: Tonga volcano biggest of 21st century

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption was the largest of the 21st century, and the explosion matched the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.

Dave Adalian

June 3, 2022

Space

Fate of SpaceX Starbase in Boca Chica … soon

The SpaceX Starbase in Texas has been waiting - and waiting - for an environmental assessment. The FAA says we'll have it in 2 weeks.

Dave Adalian

June 1, 2022

Starliner is safely back on Earth

Boeing’s Starliner returned safely from the International Space Station on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. It's touchdown marks a successful end to the OFT-2 mission.

Dave Adalian

May 26, 2022

New black hole image: 4 things we know

Astronomers released a long-sought image of our Milky Way's supermassive black hole yesterday. Here are 4 things we know.

Dave Adalian

May 13, 2022

More Starbase delay. But SpaceX rockets ahead

The FAA has announced another month-long delay its initial environmental assessment of SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.

Dave Adalian

May 3, 2022

‘Hobbits’ among us? An anthropologist says maybe

A professor of anthropology says a population of Homo floresiensis, nicknamed Hobbits, believed extinct for 50,000 years, may still exist in Indonesia.

Dave Adalian

May 1, 2022

SLS rehearsal scrubbed, Artemis likely delayed

NASA found critical faults in 2 systems on SLS, causing technicians to cancel a dress rehearsal of the ship’s launch. The delay will likely affect Artemis 1.

Dave Adalian

April 21, 2022

Will Starship and SLS herald a spaceflight revolution?

SpaceX's Starship and NASA's SLS are the 2 largest, most powerful rockets created so far. Both will soon take 1st flights out of Earth’s atmosphere.

Dave Adalian

April 17, 2022

Dave Adalian

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian's fascination with the cosmos began during a long-ago summer school trip. That fieldtrip never ended, and still Dave pursues adventures under the night sky. Dave grew up in California's Tulare County - where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada - a wilderness larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. He studied English, American literature and mass communications at the College of the Sequoias and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked as a reporter and editor for a variety news publications on- and offline during a career spanning more than 30 years.