Intuitive Machines posts record revenue and $1.1B backlog amid lunar economy surge post-SpaceX IPO

Israel moves to formally recognize Armenian WWI deaths as a genocide

This would have put my old Middle East studies professor in a bit of a quandry. On the one hand, he was no fan of the State of Israel. On the other hand, he suffered professionally at the hands of the Turkish governmemt for pointing out the Armenian Holocaust.

Before Donald Quataert annoyed the Turkish government, he was my Middle Eastern studies professor

Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes

NASA extends its commercial partnerships to Mars

Recently, NASA extended the idea of private-public partnerships to Mars. The space agency has struck a deal with Relativity Space to send an orbital probe to the Red Planet, with a launch date no earlier than 2028.

Tit-for-Tat in Strait of Hormuz; UPDATE: Iran Attacks Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraqi Government Upheaval

SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn’t

In a First, a Scientist Regrew a Human Lung in a Bioreactor. Is This the Dawn of Rebuilding Humans Piece by Piece?

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

NASA awards, ‘unicorns’ and the biggest IPO ever: A new commercial space boom is underway

NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?

I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I’m Banned for Life.

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Next-gen astronaut Moon rovers aim for deployment ahead of Artemis 4 crew arrival

NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes

NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?

Doctors suspected man had brain cancer. He actually had worms.

Cognition Therapeutics plans Phase 3 trial after drug slows dementia psychosis by 89%

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Join A First Mover in AI Robotics Who's Unlocking Mass-Market Growth

A Senate Advance on Cheaper Weapons

All of Gavin Newsom’s Donors

The Cruelty in Government-Run Medicine

Report to Congress on Returning Humans to the Moon

SpaceX plans to build 'Starpipe' natural gas pipeline to fuel Starship rockets

NASA’s Swift Boost mission readies for launch

How NASA Taught Four Astronauts to Read the Moon

Iran Didn’t Win the War

China’s Private Space Industry Must Not Be Underestimated

'A huge step forward': This strange Antarctic creature could spark a cancer breakthrough, say scientists

A Response to the Opponents of Space-Based Interceptors in Golden Dome

The US and China are planning Moon bases. It could help improve life on Earth

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"

What Happens When You Throw a Paper Plane From Space? These Physicists Found Out

The Tartan Army Takes America

Britain’s Prime Minister Problem

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

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

No Air Conditioning, Please, We’re French

Democrats Just Say No to the Military

SpaceX employees got rich off stock options. Ex-Blue Origin workers say theirs are worthless.

How Do We Balance the Federal Budget?

Firefly Aerospace Acquires Space-ng to Advance Future of Autonomous Space Operations

Vast signs additional partners for commercial space station microgravity research

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Civil rights, moon landings and war wins: What Americans see as the country’s greatest achievements

Canceled NASA exploration projects suffered billions of dollars in overruns

Socialism: On The March, Or Not So Much?

Republicans hang on

AI Is Now Drilling for Oil, and the Profits Are Enormous

Were Vikings Really ‘Uncivilized’ Barbarians? Large Textile-Production Site Discovered in Denmark Challenges That Stereotype

Nasa rover detects potential signatures of ancient microbial life on Mars

What really causes autism? We're about to find out

Cytonics begins Phase I trial of new therapy to treat knee osteoarthritis

Gut punch: New study knocks out norovirus where it strikes

Ukraine’s New Air-Power Paradigm

A Counterfactual Social Security History

Hope for spinal injuries as pigs walk again after experimental gel treatment for severed spinal cords

Putin’s reign may not survive the impending fall of Crimea

Washington should spend Iran’s frozen billions on satellite internet for its people

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

The Socialist Democrats of America

Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago. Scientists Now Know How It Happened

A Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s Took Magic Mushrooms and Started Speaking Again

Scientists begin first trial to reverse human aging

SpaceX launches secretive Starfall reentry demo mission

Here’s what can come next with climate-change fever finally breaking

Why Quantum Space chose the SPAC route to go public

Researchers Develop Promising New Therapy for Most Common Form of Bone Cancer in Children and Young Adults

Space Force May Need Presence on Moon, Paper Argues

NASA, Boeing committed to Starliner-1 launch despite unclear timeline

Data Centers Start to Drive Residential Electricity Bills Down

SpaceX and NASA leaders hail antimatter propulsion rockets for journeys beyond Mars

China’s Mysterious Spaceplane Releases Unidentified Object in Orbit

Discovery of severe pneumonia subtypes could lead to tailored treatments for life-threating disease

James Webb Spots the Same Mystery Chemical Fingerprint on Titan and Pluto

The World’s 10 Most ‘Cursed’ Places: A Guide to Dangerous Destinations

Everyone vs. Superintelligence?

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

Scott Bessent: Hamilton Inspires Trump’s Economic Statecraft

Tim Sheehy Explains Iran

Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord

Interstellar comet is unlike anything seen in our Solar System

Trump executive order directs NASA to plan quantum space applications

UFO Update: NASA Astronaut Reveals Planned Test for Extraterrestrial Life

Trump Must Condition Iran Aid to Economic Freedom

Elon Musk’s SpaceX success shows how he’s sharing the wealth, not playing Monopoly

A US military exercise in space got underway with barely anyone noticing

Stuttering Is in the Genes

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned

AI Needs Public Quality Testing

Do Bible Passages Belong in English Class?

Chuck Schumer’s Chip Shortage

The Future of Nuclear Energy

Obama’s Hideous Monument to Hubris

SpaceX Is the Opening Chapter In a Powerful Industrial Revolution

Earthlings on Europa? Provocative Study Explores ‘Reverse Panspermia’ Scenario Where Earth Life May Have Invaded an Alien Moon

Artificial Intelligence Is Still Quite 'Dumb'

This Three-Armed Robot Can Slice-and-Dice Salmon Into Sashimi

Live Free and Prosper

AI Is a Boon to Ambitious Recent Grads

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

Victory Over Iran Is Still Possible

Britain’s Great Labour Hope for Change?

Colombia Joins the Latin Right Turn

Seasoned leadership could help Quantum Space’s IPO take off

While all eyes have been on the recent SpaceX IPO, another, smaller aerospace company is preparing to go public as well. Quantum Space will initiate an IPO by merging with the special purpose acquisition company, Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VI. The deal is supposed to close later this year.

This Space Station Company Will Now Go to the Moon, Too

Making Sense Of Mars’ Tiny Moon Of Phobos

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

SpaceX doesn’t pay a dividend. So how come it may help these investors earn passive income?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew in and out of the solar corona and found a source of high-energy particles that no existing model had predicted

2026 Fifa World Cup ball heads to space as NASA studies football in zero gravity

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