Cathie Wood’s ARK Goes On $27 Million SpaceX Shopping Spree
Cathie Wood continued betting big on SpaceX on Friday. Her ARK Invest firm purchased over 200,000 shares of…
SpaceX is climbing the stack and pulling up the ladder
In February, SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal valuing the combined business at $1.25 trillion, the largest…
See A Rare ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Beside Saturn: The Night Sky This Week
Topline After a month defined by a total solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower — both blink-and-you’ll-miss-them…
NASA Starshade Would Enable Astronomers To Directly Image Rocky Exoworlds
A NASA-led team is hoping to take a short cut in directly imaging extrasolar earthlike planets. The idea…
Trump to award Congressional Space Medal of Honor to Artemis II astronauts
President Donald J. Trump will present the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to each member of NASA’s Artemis…
Starwatch: Lunar eclipse to reward early risers in UK and Europe | The moon
The early hours of Friday 28 August will reward very early risers in the UK, Europe and Africa…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Rescue mission canceled for NASA’s Swift space telescope
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory has been called off, dooming the telescope to…
NASA’s astronaut interviews are only part of the test: finalists also face hours of psychological assessment, time pressure and cognitively punishing team simulations while specialists watch how they communicate, adapt and regulate themselves—the qualities that determine whether a crew remains functional after months of isolation in space.
An astronaut interview is not one decisive conversation across a desk. By the time NASA is choosing a…
In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast |
Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were…
Quote of the day by Jennifer Wiseman: “Our bodies actually depend on…” |
Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…
How a huge fleet of 17 spacecraft discovered something surprising about solar eruptions
A misbehaving coronal mass ejection (CME) that blew out a hidden cloud of charged particles aimed at Earth…