As Grok flounders, SpaceX bets future on beating Big Tech at AI
Corporate use of Anthropic’s Claude and the Google Gemini AI models has also soared in the past year,…
SpaceX Filing Reveals How Elon Musk’s Companies Pay Each Other
Step right up to Elon Musk’s financial merry-go-round. Tucked more than 200 pages into SpaceX’s S-1 paperwork, which…
China Wants to Remotely Recharge ‘Drone Swarms’ From Orbit
Governments and private companies are racing to master the art of space-based refueling, whether the goal is recharging…
So Those Water Vapors on Europa Might Not Actually Be a Thing
In 2014, a monumental Science paper showed that Hubble data pointed to intermittent plumes of water vapor on…
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese Earth-observing satellite early on May 22
Rocket Lab will launch an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22),…
Protobiosignatures in the framework of early life detection
Schmidt, F. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2112930118 (2022). Article Google Scholar Hsu, H.-W. et…
NASA’s AWE Completes Mission to Study Earth’s Effect on Space Weather
On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection phase…
This exoplanet weather forecast by the James Webb Space Telescope calls for sandy skies and a clear (alien) sunset
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a weather forecast for the exoplanet WASP-94Ab, a world with…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from more than 24 billion kilometres away, but in 2024 NASA had to repair it by remotely moving pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip — a software patch sent into interstellar space and confirmed nearly two days later.
Voyager 1 began transmitting unreadable data on 14 November 2023. The flight data subsystem, one of three onboard…
Uh-oh, the International Space Station is leaking again
NASA confirmed Thursday that the Russian segment of the International Space Station has begun leaking atmosphere into space…
SpaceX prepares for critical launch of Starship ahead of IPO : NPR
SpaceX’s latest version of it’s mega rocket Starship goes through testing as it is prepared for a test…
Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. The new Pegasus lunar rover is just the start
Lunar Outpost has big plans for the moon. It’s right there in their name. The Colorado-based company has…