Tiger Global Management cuts stakes in Big Tech, buys into SpaceX
Aug 14 (Reuters) – Tiger Global Management trimmed several of its Big Tech stakes, exited Netflix, and took…
Rocket Lab, Amazon Win Space Force Contracts. SpaceX Closes Cursor Deal.
The Space Force on Thursday doled out new defense contracts to help build out the Space Data Network.…
Pluto’s sky is blue, chunks of its water-ice mountains float like icebergs across glaciers of frozen nitrogen, and its moon is so large that the two worlds orbit a point in empty space between them — yet Pluto still hasn’t completed a single trip around the Sun since humans discovered it in 1930.
A visitor descending towards Pluto would meet contradictions before reaching the ground. Above lies a blue atmospheric haze,…
A planet called WASP-127b, roughly 520 light-years from Earth, has a jet stream ripping around its equator at up to 33,000 km/h — more than 18 times faster than Neptune’s winds, the fastest found anywhere in our own Solar System.
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around the equator of WASP-127b at close to 9 kilometres per second, about…
‘Strap yourself in and feel the Gs’: NASA announces ‘Max Power’ aerospace expo
NASA will hold a two-day aerospace exposition this November, and it may draw a surprising number of “Simpsons”…
Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will Try to Catch a Returning Starship This Month
SpaceX (SPCX -0.91%) plans to catch a returning Starship upper stage with its launch tower for the first…
US Space Force gives Rocket Lab $397 million to build threat-tracking ‘Flatellites’
Amid the major uptick in national defense space contracts since the Trump Administration announced plans to assemble a…
Scientists hope to shed light on young universe by using far side of the moon | The moon
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the big bang, but now researchers are hoping to…
Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke
In a contrast of fire and ice, smoke from wildland fires mingled with several of the Cascade Range’s…
Alphabet’s SpaceX bet grows 100-fold over a decade to US$94 billion – CTV News
Alphabet’s SpaceX bet grows 100-fold over a decade to US$94 billion CTV NewsAlphabet’s SpaceX stake hit $94-billion, a more…
SpaceX rocket’s moon crash highlights ‘a tangible operational risk’ of lunar settlement
The moon dust has settled after a 4.5-ton SpaceX rocket body slammed into terrain near Einstein Crater on…
The Moon’s south pole can spend days in darkness, temperatures can plunge below −200°C, and unprotected electronics may not survive — Northrop Grumman is repurposing hardware built for NASA’s shelved Gateway station to test how lunar systems cope before astronauts are targeted to land in 2028.
The Moon’s south pole compresses very different environments into a small area. A high ridge may receive long…