A private company will build and launch NASA's next Mars orbiter in 2028 — and it's not SpaceX

NASA studied the entire lunar South Pole and narrowed humanity's landing options to just nine candidate regions — on a body the size of a continent, the ground everyone wants is barely a few neighborhoods

NASA selects Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for a 2028 mission to Mars

NASA should build a biocontainment facility on the moon to protect Earth, researchers advise

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?

New anticancer vaccine shows early success in targeting neuroblastoma

World’s first in vivo gene editing Phase 3 win

Greece’s Parthenon gets a facelift, revealing a look not seen for 220 years

Two Virginia Counties Diverge on AI Data Centers

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Britain’s Great Labour Hope for Change?

Race Preferences Are Falling Nationwide

California’s Democratic Civil War Over the Wealth Tax

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Traces of Alien Technology Could Be Hidden in Moon Dust, Study Says

Jeff Bezos at VivaTech: We need to colonise the Moon to save Earth

"Affordability" Should Be A Winning Issue For Republicans

Data Center Critics Have Water On The Brain

This absurd Social Security plan would take down progressives with it

The Warfare Of The Future Is Already Here

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon 'the province of all mankind' and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

Chinese university-led mission to study asteroid Apophis during close encounter with Earth

What Happens When You Cut a Photon in Half? You Get a Quantum Surprise

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted (Stories of Alternate History #CommissionEarned

Mamdani vs. Bodegas

Another Russian Dissident Murder

Drugs, Guns and Whiskey at the Supreme Court

Blue Origin begins rebuilding New Glenn pad

Swift reboost mission ready for launch

Quantum Space wins Pentagon contract to develop orbital refueling spacecraft

Relativity Space to privately develop Mars orbiter mission

California is rethinking nuclear — environmental groups should, too

Note to Bernie: AI could herald new age for trade jobs, unions

Musk’s SpaceX Wealth Launches A Trillion Tax Lies

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA is racing to rescue it

The nose knows: Electric schnoz can smell when your food’s gone bad

Please, No More New Deals

Talking Crazy Is How You Lose Elections

California Needs a Pro-Business Governor

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Jules Verne predicted submarines and Moon missions. He also got some things hilariously wrong

One of The Ocean’s Deadliest Snails Gave Us a Nonaddictive Painkiller and Scientists Say They Have Barely Scratched The Surface

A Piece of the Moon Found in Africa Records a Giant Lunar Impact From the Dawn of Life on Earth

San Antonio lunar research project aims to support NASA moon and Mars plans

NASA discussing bold mission to boost Swift space telescope today: Listen live

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Tax What Elon Musk Hasn't Sold

Two years, 2 million words: How a brain implant transformed an ALS patient’s life

Are Alien Probes Hiding in Our Backyard? A New Study Says We’ve Barely Looked

He Didn’t Pay to Build That?

The Russian Economy Looks More Vulnerable Each Day

Obama’s Legacy Is the Trump Presidency

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

Korean Researchers Invented a Water-Purifying Capsule That You Can Power by Shaking It

Could Earth Have Seeded Life to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa on Tiny Grains of Dust?

Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Fortune Could Buy 24 Million Teslas or Wipe Out US Medical Debt 4 times. Here’s What Else It Could Buy

Artemis 3 take shape

Fueling the Coming Nuclear Renaissance

Astrobotic unveils Griffin-1 lunar lander for NASA Moon Base mission

What is Helium-3 and could we get it from the moon?

Heartseed tests world’s first catheter-delivered stem cell therapy for heart failure

Experimental Treatment Directly Kills Prostate Tumor Cells While Reawakening Antitumor Immunity

Doctors Found a Way to Make Dreaming During Anesthesia Much More Common

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

Girl Dads Take On Maine

With an Iran Deal, Trump Returns to Realism

On Energy, Democrats Can Learn From Texas

Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks

Building on the Moon: NASA's Architectural Strategy for Permanent Lunar Habitation

Can Future Satellites Be Reusable?

A New Path to Preventing Cancer

Data centers in space are going to happen

Woke Drama and Media Non-troversy Ensue after Artemis III All-Male Crew is Announced

Towards a faster hydrogen-based steel production

Britain Is Bringing in Some Innovative Engineering to Tackle Flooding: Beavers

The Race for Hypersonic Missiles

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

AI Can Do Math, but Is It Really Math?

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

Switzerland Rejects a Population Cap

NASA’s Artemis III mission is starting to take shape

NASA announced more details about the upcoming Artemis III mission, which unlike Artemis II will take place in low Earth orbit. The announcement included the identities of the crew who will conduct the mission.

Pegasus: The next-gen lunar rover that will leave Apollo buggy in its dust

How the historic SpaceX IPO is turning everyday workers into overnight millionaires

I was an early SpaceX employee. My equity helped me pay off student loans, buy a home, and make risky career moves.

NASA Wanted Nothing To Do With This Sci-Fi Movie That Critics Absolutely Hated

Three Cheers for Elon Musk — and America

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Top Tren de Aragua leader killed in US military strike, Trump announces

Elon Musk at IPO Debut: SpaceX Is About Taking The Fiction Out Of Science Fiction

SpaceX’s IPO is a display of Musk’s autocratic power

Former Congressman, former NASA Administrator and current Quantum Space CEO Jim Bridenstine opens his mind about his company's future plans and other space related topics.

Elon Musk is a Genius, and a Litmus Test

Astronaut Victor Glover is still trying to find the spiritual words to describe his Moon mission

NASA astronaut Victor Glover gets emotional surprise on live TV

How Elon Musk nailed the SpaceX IPO: ‘I’m not sure that this could have gone much better’

Why Robots Still Can’t Do Science

SpaceX is now a public company valued for its AI potential, so what comes next?

Rokit Healthcare to begin human kidney regeneration surgery in July

Russia Has Lost Its ‘Near Abroad’

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

A Hypersonic Missile on a Beer Budget

Kathy Hochul and the ‘Gestating Parent’

Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?

NRG Energy opens first new power plant in a decade

How to participate in the SpaceX IPO

Modular next-gen US nuclear reactor goes critical

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to make its debut on Wall Street

This Factory in Washington Is Turning Captured CO2 Into Jet Fuel

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

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

Vindication For Young Elon Musk

It’s Time for School Choice

The Revolt of Britain’s Defenders

NASA’s next space telescope is eight months ahead of schedule

As Summer Begins, Let’s Give Thanks For A Life-Saving American Invention: Air Conditioning

World First: Patient Receives High-Risk Therapy to Make Cells Young Again

10 big questions about the search for life beyond Earth

Augmented reality system could make medical ultrasounds easier to interpret

Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans

Democrats Make Their Platner Bed

A Simple, Unified Theory of Antisemitism

We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Will the Pope Owe an Apology to AI?

Astronauts Could Grow Their Own Medicines in Space Using Plants

Scientists Found Bacteria Thriving Inside Fog and Eating Air Pollution