Boeing demonstrates quantum protocol in payload set for 2027 launch
PORTLAND, Ore. – Boeing demonstrated a key quantum networking protocol in ground testing of a compact payload ahead…
Some climate models suggest Venus could once have had liquid water and habitable temperatures, until a dramatic transformation hundreds of millions of years ago. One leading idea is that widespread volcanic resurfacing helped push the planet into the runaway greenhouse state that left it hotter than Mercury today.
Venus today is the most hostile planet in the solar system. Its surface sits at about 465 degrees…
The Case for and Against Buying SpaceX Right Now
The ability to calculate wisely in the midst of strong emotions — fear, greed, excitement, worry — is…
Dennis Hope has been selling acres of the moon for about $20 each since 1980, reportedly moving over 2.5 million parcels — every deed voided by a treaty he claims says nothing about private citizens
Dennis Hope walked into a county clerk’s office in 1980 and filed a claim of ownership over the…
NASA payload to ride commercial Mars orbiter from rocket biz yet to reach orbit
SCIENCE Aeolus mission promises better Martian weather models, assuming Relativity Space can get its Terran R off the…
NASA Flyby Reveals Violent Origin of Weird Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped…
344 steps stood between the James Webb Space Telescope and total failure — any one could have ended it — and the telescope that survived them all now runs on less power than a household kettle, a million miles from Earth
When the James Webb Space Telescope launched on 25 December 2021, it carried a list of 344 single…
The Chinese scientists hoping to use a space solar plant to power the world
Using a few mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter, Fan Guanheng and his team can send power…
Like winning Lotto: the workers sharing in Rocket Lab’s riches
NBR Rich Lister and Rocket Lab founder Sir Peter Beck believes ‘wealth’ shouldn’t be the dirty word it…
Weekly quiz: How many SpaceX employees just became millionaires? – BBC
Weekly quiz: How many SpaceX employees just became millionaires? BBCSpaceX’s I.P.O. Could Turn 4,400 Employees Into Millionaires The New York…
A lunar meteorite found in northwest Africa has been shown to record evidence of an asteroid impact on the Moon 3.5 billion years ago, matching independently dated impacts on Earth and on the asteroid 4 Vesta from the same period, at the moment life on Earth was first taking hold
The first few billion years of Earth’s history are largely inaccessible to direct geological investigation. The surface that…
Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest With the Trump Administration Regulating SpaceX Are So Profound That They Have Grim Implications for Society
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