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SpaceX and Blue Origin abruptly shift priorities amid US Golden Dome push

Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: 'Launch' countdown completed for moon rocket fueling test

Mamdani wants to socialize housing by driving building owners like me to bankruptcy

Even If Social Security Were Going Bankrupt (It's Not), Retirees Wouldn't Care

Science fiction blinded us to the perils of settling Mars

Trump Can Prevent a War Among America’s Mideast Allies

MAGA Voters Back Trump’s Interventions

AI Can Help Defend Against Cyberattacks

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

A Bizarre Gravity Hole Under Antarctica Might Be Why the Continent Froze Over Millions of Years Ago

Blood test “clocks” predict when Alzheimer’s symptoms will start

New York Gov. Hochul drops robotaxi service proposal for outside NYC in blow to Waymo

Fine to introduce Protecting Puppies from Sharia Act amid criticism over post

NASA chief classifies Starliner flight as “Type A” mishap, says agency made mistakes

Texas Boosts Power Grid: Gov. Abbott Announces NRG’s $617M Natural Gas Plant In Harris County

SpaceX unveils space traffic management system

RFK Jr’s MAHA agenda should focus on food, not vaccines

Is This the Greatest Financial Scandal in Human History?

Tomorrow’s Smart Pills Will Deliver Drugs and Take Biopsies

Democrats, You May Already Have Lost the 2028 Election

Can Newsom Live Down His Record?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Does Geopolitics

Mamdani Takes New York Hostage

The Artemis Project

A New Moon Race Starts This Year—and This Time It’s All About the Water

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

How Do Giraffes Pump Blood 6 Meters Up Without Suffering Heart Failure? The Answer To This Question Could Solve Hypertension in Humans

Living ‘mini brains’ meet next-generation bioelectronics

FDA to review Moderna’s flu jab on agency pivot

Elon Musk wants to put a satellite catapult on the moon. It's not a new idea

Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NASA plans a round 2 for Artemis rocket fueling test

US Economic Growth Looks Slow — Until You Compare It to Europe’s

Did a titanic moon crash create Saturn's iconic rings?

The Water Vapor Problem

Democrats, You May Already Have Lost the 2028 Election

Iran Wants Trump to Pull an Obama

China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Meet Godzilla, the Four Meter Robot Building the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor

Computer Chips Designed Like Biological Brains Can Finally Handle Massive Math Problems Without Guzzling Energy Like a Normal Supercomputer

Classifying pediatric brain tumors by liquid biopsy using artificial intelligence

Inside TerraPower’s World-First Nuclear Project Being Built Just Outside Kemmerer

US Airlifts New Nuclear Reactor Breakthrough

Rev Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and Rainbow PUSH founder, dies at 84

Elon Musk’s Starlink crackdown cripples attacks on Ukraine as Russian casualty rates soar

Chevron CEO details strategy to shield consumers from soaring AI power costs

How Trump is righting the economic ship after the SS Biden disaster

Formate Could Finally Bring About the Bio-Manufacturing Revolution

Musk’s Moon mania

America Needs AI That Can Do Math

Rubio’s Tough Love for Europe

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Does Geopolitics

Rather Than Expanding Forever, The Universe May Be Doomed to “Crunch” in 20 Billion Years

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

World’s Biggest Creativity Experiment Shows AI Is Better at Brainstorming Than Most People

A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later

Early Mars was warm and wet not icy, suggests latest research

Robert Duvall, All-Purpose Actor With Few Peers, Dies at 95

Isaacman planning to meet with head of Roscosmos

A Soulless Argument

FAA Greenlights New SpaceX Starship Trajectories Over U.S. Mainland

NASA to let private company Vast visit space station for private mission in 2027

A New Concept for Catching Up with 3I/ATLAS

Beyond amyloid: Emerging drug targets for Alzheimer’s

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

3 Unique Ways Smart People Think

Astronomers Are Baffled by a Truly Amazing ‘Inside Out’ Star System That Places a Rocky Planet Where a Gas Giant Belongs

Spinal Cord Organoids Help Test Paralysis Treatment

Musk’s lunar city plan supercharges America’s return to the moon

Recently, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made a history changing announcement on his social media platform X. It read, in part: “For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20-plus years.”

Bezos vs. Musk: The New Billionaire Battle for the Moon

SpaceX Veteran Says He’s Figured Out How to Make Rocket Fuel From Water

Secretary Marco Rubio Remarks at Munich Security Conference

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA has a new problem to fix before the next Artemis II countdown test

Musk vs. Bezos, China in the mirror: A strategic analysis of the new moon race

America Reclaims Its Dominance in Space

It is time to take astronomy off Earth

Babylon 5 | Full Episode | The Gathering: Season 1, Episode 1

Why haven’t humans been back to the moon in over 50 years?

Why is Bezos trolling Musk on X with turtle pics? Because he has a new Moon plan.

NASA Will Now Allow Astronauts to Bring Their Smartphones into Space. Here's What That Means

The Billionaire Space Race Is Really Heating Up

America Gets a Raise

Virginia Democrats Try an Unconstitutional Gerrymander

HHS Tries Crowd-Sourcing Medicaid Fraud Detection

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Four astronauts launch to space station after prior crew's early departure

Second U.S. aircraft carrier expected to head to Middle East, officials say, amid Iran tensions

Consumer prices rose 2.4% annually in January, less than expected

Soft Power and the Race to the Moon: Why Cislunar Norms Are the Next Hill to Hold

Why China's first-ever in-flight abort test matters for its lunar ambitions

NASA Moon Mission Spacesuit Nears Milestone

SpaceX and NASA launch astronauts to relieve bare-bones crew at ISS

Another Climate Pipe Dream: Capturing Carbon Out of Thin Air

Pentagon Prepares Second Aircraft Carrier to Deploy to the Middle East

Climate Alarm On The Run

Will Life on Mars Require a Genetic Rewrite?

Is Help Still on the Way for Iranian Protesters?

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Trump’s Climate Liberation Act

Reading Books and Writing Is Linked to a 40% Drop in Alzheimer’s Risk

Kim Jong Un chooses teen daughter as heir, says Seoul

The End of 2Tier Keir

Saturn's moon Titan could have formed in a merger of two old moons

Mars Organics Are Hard to Explain Without Life, NASA-Led Study Finds

Large Scale Desalination Belongs in California’s Water Strategy

We Told You So: EPA Was Wrong About CO2 From the Start

What if AIs set out to conquer the world . . . with love?

New Ocean Is Being Born As Africa Splits Into Two Continents

China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test

What a Creationist Astrophysicist Thinks of UFOs

What I Suffered Being ‘Transgender’

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

A Welcome Jobs Rebound

Why Perovskite LEDs Might Soon Replace Every Light in Your Home

Paralysis treatment heals lab-grown human spinal cord organoids

CONSIDER THIS: Did the Ancient Chinese Know About Jesus?

NASA chief: Artemis moon landing is litmus test for ‘American exceptionalism’

Trump Is Set to Make the 'Largest Act of Deregulation in the History'

Iran, Gaza, and ending military aid to Israel hang over Trump and Netanyahu meeting

Uranus' moon 'Miranda' seems to have an ocean and possibly life

SpaceX Kicks Russian Soldiers Off Of Starlink

Core Survey by NASA’s Roman Mission Will Unveil Universe’s Dark Side

Momentus and NASA Partner to Advance In-Orbit Servicing and Space Operations

NASA Still Has a Lot of Work to Do to Return to the Moon

NASA, Boeing still working on Starliner return to flight

Abolish ICE? Dems Can’t Even Plow Snow

Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found

Elon Musk Lands on the Moon

The Pronoun Wars in Public Schools

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Two Discoveries Hint That the Building Blocks of Life Form in Deep Space Long Before Planets Even Exist

AI Just Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected

Trump's isolation of Cuba dries up nation's jet fuel supplies, forcing airlines to adjust