Musk may already be a trillionaire. SpaceX staff and investors will hit multibillion-dollar jackpots
The biggest initial public offering of all time will deliver massive windfalls for Elon Musk, other SpaceX employee,…
Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it
Roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, the International Space Station is flying through a kind of invisible chemical weather.…
NASA Is Opening Up Bids For Who Will Run The Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The current contract with Caltech ends in 2028. NASA is opening up bids for who will run the…
The Hubble Deep Field began as a gamble on a tiny patch of sky that had been chosen because it looked almost empty, and it ended by revealing nearly 3,000 galaxies hiding in what seemed like nothing.
In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent ten days staring at a small, deliberately unremarkable patch of…
What is the “meat paradox”? Why we don’t want animals harmed but won’t stop eating them.
Many people live with an uncomfortable contradiction: They like animals and don’t want to see them harmed, yet…
Saudi joins big cat alliance
NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia on Friday joined the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) as its new member. So…
Early Complex Life Lived In Oxygenated Seas, Challenging Long‑held Views Of Evolution
Microfossil by Researcher Max Lechte. Credit – LA Reidman McGill University The earliest known eukaryotes, the ancestors of…
‘Corporate capture’ of critical minerals risks repeating DRC’s extractive past, warns indigenous leader
From May 13-15, the Cobalt Institute, a London-based organization, hosted a conference in Madrid to discuss the…
Titan’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’s, its rivers and lakes are made of methane and ethane, and NASA is sending a nuclear-powered drone there because on Saturn’s largest moon, flying may be easier than driving.
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has a denser atmosphere than Earth and a surface where rain, rivers,…
Calvin Nash: We went to an elephant sanctuary in Thailand — it was just incredible
As one of Munster and Ireland’s rising stars, Calvin Nash has spent much of his career on the…
China’s upcoming lunar mission to target moon’s south pole
China’s Chang’e-7 lunar exploration mission, scheduled for launch in the second half of 2026, will conduct environmental and…
The network watching the world’s oceans is under pressure – just when it’s needed most
Increasingly, the world’s oceans are telling us our climate system may be changing faster and more dramatically than…