Chris Boex

Tampa

Director of Digital Content, Group Content Team at Fox Corporation

FOX Television Stations journalist by day; dad by night. Occasional space reporter. #SpaceCamp @UofMaryland #Terps. #BlueAces. Ever-wary Cleveland sports fan.

Articles

Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? Leo XIV is first American pope

1 week ago | q13fox.com | CHRIS WILLIAMS |Chris Boex

By Chris Williams and Chris Boex Published May 8, 2025 11:02am PDT VATICAN CITY - The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He'll take the name Pope Leo XIV. The news came just over an hour after white smoke finally billowed from the Sistine Chapel late Thursday afternoon, signaling to the world that the papal conclave had chosen a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month.
Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? Leo XIV is first American pope

1 week ago | fox5ny.com | Chris Williams |Chris Boex

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He'll take the name Pope Leo XIV. The news came just over an hour after white smoke finally billowed from the Sistine Chapel late Thursday afternoon, signaling to the world that the papal conclave had chosen a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month.
Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? Leo XIV is first American pope

1 week ago | fox5ny.com | Chris Williams |Chris Boex

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He'll take the name Pope Leo XIV. The news came just over an hour after white smoke finally billowed from the Sistine Chapel late Thursday afternoon, signaling to the world that the papal conclave had chosen a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month.
Zelle outage impacts money transfers

1 week ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

File: In this photo illustration, a Zelle logo is displayed on the screen of a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Zelle, the money transfer app, appeared to be having problems Friday morning. What we know: Users on Down Detector reported being unable to send money from bank to bank. The reports seemed to begin around 6 a.m. ET, though some users reported problems began last night. "This is very inconvenient," one user complained.
Were they stuck? NASA’s Starliner astronauts finally weigh in

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

NASA’s so-called stuck astronauts, after being home for two weeks, insist they did not feel stuck aboard the space station when their problem-plagued Starliner capsule was sent back to Earth without them. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spoke to Bill Hemmer of FOX News, making their first public comments about the dramatically extended mission. They acknowledged that spaceflight is still a tough business and Wilmore even tried to take the blame for some of the Starliner issues. Stuck or not?
List: The most and least American-made cars

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on imported automobiles will hit some carmakers harder than others. Vehicles that are made mostly in America, with American-made parts, will be hit the least. But overseas brands without much of a factory presence in the U.S. could see significant increases in cost.
Watch: SpaceX spy satellite launch leaves otherworldly spiral in the sky

1 month ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

Monday’s SpaceX launch was carrying a classified satellite to space, but the secret payload was not the cause of an unusual glowing spiral seen in the skies of Europe. Social media was filled with photos and videos of the blue swirling cloud left behind by the rocket – an unusual, though not unprecedented, sight. NROL-69 launch What we know: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral just before 2 p.m. on Monday, carrying a satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Photos: Lunar lander gets rare view of eclipse from the moon

2 months ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

Views of the eclipse from the moon (Firefly Aerospace) While Earthlings were watching the moon almost disappear during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon was looking back and getting a very different – and very rare – view. Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured nearly unprecedented images of what appeared, from its perspective in the moon’s Mare Crisium, to be a total solar eclipse as Earth blocked out the sun.
SpaceX astronaut launch scrubbed due to technical issue

2 months ago | fox5ny.com | Chris Boex

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, seen Tuesday morning at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (SpaceX photo) A Wednesday evening SpaceX launch, intended to send a new crew to the space station, was scrubbed less than an hour before launch due to a hydraulics issue at the launch pad.
Evening SpaceX launch will set up astronauts' long-overdue return

2 months ago | livenowfox.com | Chris Boex

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, seen Tuesday morning at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (SpaceX photo) A Wednesday evening SpaceX launch will send a new crew to the space station, but much of the attention will be focused on two astronauts who are not aboard.