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In late June and early July, NBC News, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal published stories that appeared at first glance to shed a lurid light on Donald Trump’s flirtation with Kim Jong-un. They contained satellite imagery showing that North…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Afghanistan earlier this week and declared that U.S. strategy there “is indeed working.” Alas, evidence of success in America’s longest war is difficult to find. On Saturday, just before the secretary made his hopeful…
Tel Aviv is the latest US ally to suffer the economic impact of US steel and aluminum tariffs, with Israeli manufacturers warning that the restrictions will have a catastrophic impact on local industry. Notwithstanding historically close political and economic ties,…
Weighing just 1,320 pounds (about 600 kilograms), Israel’s spacecraft, developed by the non-profit company SpaceIL, may become the smallest unmanned vehicle in history to implement a lunar landing mission. Israel has announced plans to send an unmanned mission to the Moon in December…
On Tuesday, Israel announced that it will launch an unmanned spacecraft for its first lunar mission in December 2018, which is expected to land on the moon two months later, on February 13, 2019. If successful, Israel would become the…
The European Southern Observatory released an image Wednesday of star cluster RCW 38 that offers a view of hundreds of young, hot, massive stars. The image was captured by the HAWK-I infrared imager that’s mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, ESO…
