Sunday, August 30, 2026

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
What China’s delay means for the US-China moon race

The liftoff of China’s Chang’e 7 mission to the moon has been delayed into 2027. Ars Technica reports that the Chinese are being vague about the exact reasons for the delay, only suggesting it is due to, adhering to “the principle of proceeding prudently and reliably, and ensuring absolute success.”

China removes two top generals from supreme military command body
What could the Artemis IV astronauts discover on the Moon?
The race to establish the first Moon base is on. And the stakes couldn't be higher
Exclusive: SpaceX Lays Groundwork For Turbine-Blade Factory to Solve Data Center Power Crunch
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
Roman Space Telescope Mission
NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
Antifa Networks Panic After Trump Administration Sanctions Their Secret Tech Collective

Saturday, August 29, 2026

How JK Rowling became famous, beloved, and reviled
Trump Fixin' to Double Proven US Oil Reserves in a Move As Smooth As the Orinoco Flows
Trump Signs Order to Create US Space Academy, New Pipeline for Space Force and NASA
"That sucker is open": U.S. gains the upper hand in the battle for Hormuz
Net Zero Won't Fix Climate Change. Technology Will
Here’s what we know about the “space academy” Trump just announced
Top 10 Roman Space Telescope science breakthroughs
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
World’s first computer vision-guided brain tumor surgery rescues man’s failing eyesight
Artificial Criticism of Artificial Intelligence?
Mike Rogers’s Plan to Defeat Abdul El-Sayed

Friday, August 28, 2026

Ted Cruz fires 2028 warning shot against JD Vance, but his lane is uncertain
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft
Lessons from the fracking fights
It’s the socialism, stupid: The DSA may cost Dems their blue wave
Bodegas of New York unite
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
A Common Vaccine May Protect the Heart for Years After the Shot
Dolly Parton Was a Music Legend, But She Helped Science in Ways Most Fans Never Knew About
UCSF QBI Awarded $46M to Translate Landmark Autism Map Into Precision Therapies
Dolly Parton Leaves Us Wanting More
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned
The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned
Don’t Let Terrorists Run Nonprofits
You’re Living Longer, Americans
Would Putin Really Tangle With NATO?

Thursday, August 27, 2026

BOOK REVIEW: ‘New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars’
SpaceX plans to build a $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana
NASA administrator suggests putting data centers in space
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft
With launch of Roman telescope, NASA hopes to unlock mystery of dark energy
A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren’t the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?
Moon Dust May Be Hiding a 100-Million-Year Record of Exploding Stars
Alzheimer's Damage in Mice Reversed With Just Two Injections
Nix on Nixon: How to Defeat the DSA in the Midterms
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Much Ado About Artificial Intelligence
Texas School Choice Helps the Not-Rich
A Pancreatic Cancer Revolution

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
Deloitte puts the lunar economy at up to $566 billion by 2050—and SpaceX is speeding the timeline
NASA, Advanced Space team up for CAPSTONE follow-on mission
The future of medicine just arrived
How NASA is prepping for lunar traffic jams
SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport
A Pill Designed to Mimic the Positive Effects of Exercise Just Passed Its First Human Safety Test
FDA-Cleared Alzheimer’s Blood Test Marks a Shift Toward Earlier, Less Invasive Diagnosis
Josh Shapiro Finds the Sensible Middle on Data Centers
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Dolly Parton, the Only Voice in the World
Ascendant No More, Democrats Are a Coalition of the Pathetic
The Metals Lobby’s Big Steal

Monday, August 24, 2026

Sunday, August 23, 2026

How should the moon and Mars be governed?

With the Artemis program going full out to establish a base on the moon and with dreams by SpaceX’s Elon Musk to build a city on Mars, the question arises about how these worlds will be governed once humans are living on them. Adriana C. Ocampo Uria, a planetary scientist and self-described space ethics specialist, has taken to Space News to propose one answer.

University of Houston regents approve removal of 133 courses from its core curriculum
China's bid for lunar water launches Sunday as the new space race heats up
NASA's Roman telescope is built to find what Hubble and Webb miss
How will NASA's astronaut training hub change with commercial space stations?
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
Yes, Trump Is Right: The Strait of Hormuz Is Open and Iran Is in Trouble
The Welfare Reform Act at 30: Work is still the answer
Ice cream can be traced back to a frozen milk dish from the 7th century.

Friday, August 21, 2026

New space transportation policy focuses on increased launch rates
Artemis III Commander on 'sense of urgency' ahead of mission
SpaceX will try for 1st Starship tower catch 'in a few months,' Elon Musk says
NASA Is Building a Moon Base – and the First Pieces Are Already Coming Together
The best way toward a Social Security fix? This one is tried and true.
The Wild Theory That Alzheimer’s Is a Plumbing Issue
The World’s Largest Trapped Ion Quantum Computer Just Showed What Comes After Supercomputers
A Hidden Pattern in Your Saliva Can Predict Risk of Colorectal Cancer, Study Finds
The ‘Medicare for All’ Math Doesn’t Add Up
Dissent Grows Among Russia’s Political Elites
China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history
Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Americans Are Getting Caught in the Safety Net
The Supreme Court’s Popular Mandate
Ro Khanna Gets a Wealth Tax Education

Thursday, August 20, 2026

China’s Chang’e-7 lunar ice-hunting mission set for Sunday launch
New images reveal the impact site of SpaceX rocket’s moon collision
Gov. Jeff Landry to announce Louisiana’s deal with SpaceX. Here’s when, more details
NASA picks Texas for $10.5M skilled workforce initiative as local companies eye hiring targets
Iron Air Batteries – Niche, or Next Big Thing?
The exodus from California continues –– to fix it, do this
Artificial birth will change what it means to be human
Against all odds, SpaceX finally tugs Starship into port after 24 days at sea
Farmers in Egypt Are Growing Crops Under Solar Panels to Beat Extreme Heat. The Watermelons Like It
Scientists build pacemaker battery that might never need replacing again in a lifetime
Midterm Lessons From Bush to Trump
AI Bubble May Deflate, Not Burst
It’s Hard to Tax Things That Move
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket Ship 40 towed to Christmas Island during salvage operation
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Byron Donalds and Florida’s Future
Ending the Syrian Nuclear Saga
Moderna’s Road to a Cancer Vaccine

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Space nuclear programs face near- and long-term challenges
Colonizing Antarctica and other anti-space fables
Two futures on the Moon
Anti-Tax Sentiment Is Trending, Even In the Bluest States
Cosmic birefringence: the signal that could upend cosmology
World’s Largest All Electric Airplane Just Flew for 27 Minutes on About $5 of Power
China’s Landspace recovers booster with second orbital launch of Zhuque-3 rocket
Princeton Study Finds Music Triggers Story-Like Brain Activity
If El-Sayed and Sanders Kill Private Health Plans
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again #CommissionEarned
The Young MAGA Socialists Are Here
Medicaid and Transgender Treatments for Kids
The Economic Case for European Air Conditioning

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The United States is about to wake up to the threat from China’s space program
Korea, NASA partner to map radiation at moon's south pole
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket Ship 40 towed to Christmas Island during salvage operation
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
Stop Fearing AI Like the Luddites Feared the Loom
Uber, Zipline Partner With Goal of Hitting 1 Million Drone Deliveries a Day
Constantine’s Example for China
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned
How to Cure What Ails American Capitalism
AI Makes Me a Better Writer
Trump’s Iran War Gordian Knot

Monday, August 17, 2026

Scientists Melted Diamond at Temperatures Hotter Than the Sun. It Behaved Very Strangely
The Moon as a Test Case for Coercion Theory: US Interests in a New Space Race
Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030
Artemis II pilot thanks NASA for letting him fly Orion by hand: 'I'm still blown away by that trust'
Texas may soon have more people than California — here’s why
NASA funds spherical 'Aerobots' that could explore the caves of Saturn's moon Titan
Luigi Mangione and Democrats’ ObamaCare Deflection
USS Lincoln: Performance For the Ages
The New Syria: The Enemy of Israel’s Enemy
Korea's Space Radiation Detector to Reach Moon's South Pole by 2030
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
Boys Will Be Boys—but in the WNBA?
Republicans Can End an Inflation Tax
Judge Lee Rudofsky to the Eighth Circuit

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Venus Highlights a Big Problem With How We Measure Alien Planets
SpaceMD will use Starfall to launch its creation of space pharmaceuticals

Redwire, working through its space-based pharmaceutical subsidiary, SpaceMD, has bought the first operational flight of the SpaceX Starfall to continue the research and development of drugs using microgravity to improve their potency and other qualities. If and when the company creates space-manufactured drugs, they will constitute the first physical product created beyond the Earth.

Exploring the moon will require rovers that can think for themselves
Japan aims for the moons of Mars
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft power': China's new moon map signals bold space ambitions (video)
NASA Administrator: Upcoming space expo will showcase ‘the technological might of the nation’
Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests
Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
The Quiet Manufacturing Boom
Iranians Struggle to Afford Groceries as Trump Squeezes Economy
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s happy warrior

Saturday, August 15, 2026

NASA reveals MAX POWER airshow at Kennedy Space Center: What to know
When will Betelgeuse go supernova?
How Colleges Produce Socialists
Texas developer pitches recycled Navy nuclear reactors as power source for AI infrastructure
NASA's Hubble and Roman space telescopes will work together to broaden our perspective of the universe.
What if the ADDAMS FAMILY Raised Harry Potter?
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Why Britain Is Shedding Millionaires
Keeping Up With the Jones Act Waiver
A Crisis in U.S. Naval Readiness, Revealed Democrats bemoan the USS Abraham Lincoln but won’t fund the Navy.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

Firefly Aerospace Awarded Contract to Design Elytra Deorbit System for Defense Innovation Unit
Japanese Start-Up Creates Drone That Hunts Mosquitoes and Zaps Them Mid-Air. We’re Not Convinced Yet
Let’s Talk About Cash…
Every disease is a policy failure
There's One Genetic Variant That Makes The Body Burn Fat Instead of Storing It
Astronomers witness cosmic recycling system in action
Radiation vest tested on NASA moonshot can cut astronauts’ exposure in solar storms, study suggests
How to Find Lunar Ice? Moonquakes to the Rescue!
You Can Take It With You—to Florida
Seven Steps to Defeat Dems and the DSA
Despite What You’ve Heard, the World Isn’t on Fire
What Problems Should AI Be Solving?
An eye implant that can restore vision has been approved
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
Wacky Francesca Hong Almost Won in Wisconsin
Zhu Rongji, and What China Might Have Been
Mamdani Wants to Deliver Amazon to the Teamsters

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Returning Launch Complex 36 to Two Pads: Blue Origin Begins Construction of LC-36B
National lab visit boosts NASA’s confidence in space nuclear propulsion mission
Trump’s chance to lower costs, spark jobs and Make NY Buildable Again
The New Wild West: Texas Experiments With Raw Capitalism
A Common Cholesterol Treatment May Also Remove PFAS And Microplastics From Blood
Interstellar Travel III: Antimatter to the Rescue?
UK beats EU and US to first oral GLP-1 approval
The SpaceX Rocket Finally Hit the Moon. Here’s What Scientists Saw
The US Is Recruiting Gamers to Help Fix Its Air Traffic Control Crisis. That May Not Be As Crazy As It Sounds
Trump vs. Socialism: Which Do Voters Revile More?
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
AOC for President? Don’t Rule It Out
Glenn Youngkin Goes to Bat for School Choice
Iran’s Trump Strategy—Dead or Alive

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

SpaceX increasing footprint in missile defense
NASA’s moon base is taking shape with 20+ lunar landings planned
Why the Moon Has to Go Nuclear
Nasa invites Isro to join ambitious Moon base program as part of Artemis Mission
NASA has quietly accumulated more than 150 petabytes of data across decades of missions, and under a new White House initiative launched in November 2025, it's betting that AI can find discoveries still hiding in archives too vast to examine by hand
Space: The Next Frontier for Maneuver Warfare
The Forgotten Technology That Created 40 Million Jobs
Why Is SpaceX’s Starship Still Adrift in the Indian Ocean?
Tritium Betavoltaic Cells Aim to Support Future Lunar Bases
One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
Meta to open source its most powerful AI model as it takes swipe at OpenAI, Anthropic
Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter
The US Just Approved Its First mRNA Flu Vaccine. Is This a New Era?
Socialism Is the Wrong Answer, but the Questions Are Real
The Moon, Mars, and Beyond #CommissionEarned
Lower Drug Prices Without Killing Innovation
A Welcome Trump Restart for Head Start
Trump’s Blockade Keeps the Economic Pressure on Iran

Monday, August 10, 2026

Chinese Long March 7A rocket explodes shortly after liftoff
AI breakthrough: Why life on the Moon and Mars could happen much sooner
These analysts say Elon Musk’s ambitious AI plans for SpaceX should be taken seriously, thanks to Microsoft
From Idaho to Mars: NASA chief celebrates INL's role in the new space race
Net zero scepticism is not climate-change denial
What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
'Exceeded Our Expectations': One Antioxidant Could Be Key to Keeping Aging Muscles Strong
How mice learn to think out of the box — a neuroscience surprise
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
A Nasal Spray Made From Stem Cell Particles May Calm Brain Inflammation and Restore Memory
How to Salvage Science in Fauci’s Wake
Francesca Hong, the Socialists’ Next Hope

Sunday, August 09, 2026

The No. 1 threat to getting America back to the moon and beyond
A forgotten mission: NASA once planned to send astronauts to Venus

“Star City” — the spinoff of the alternate history television series “For All Mankind” — concerns a Soviet-crewed flyby of Venus taking place in the early 1970s. The mission is fraught with Cold War intrigue and Soviet-era paranoia and corruption.

However, many people do not know that NASA seriously considered a similar space mission during the same timeframe.

China’s lunar research station could be guarded by robot watchdogs, space scientists say
SpaceMD Signs Starfall’s First Deal: 32 Drug Labs to Eclipse ISS Program in One Flight
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
A mission to save NASA’s falling observatory spun out of control. What happens next
Bill Maher calls Francesca Hong ‘Debbie Downer’ for wanting to get rid of Thanksgiving
Joe Biden’s cancer ‘has spread’ and is ‘very painful’: Hunter Biden

Saturday, August 08, 2026

Lessons for the future of NASA Mars exploration from a 1970s mission
Three companies building the tech to grow crops on the moon
A new space race is unfolding at the moon’s south pole. Here’s what to know about China’s game plan
NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes
Vitamin D During Pregnancy Could Boost Kids' Cognitive Performance
America Needs to Go on Offense With AI
Ukraine’s 4-D Chess Move
Meet Mineral Mappers Flying NASA Tech Out West
Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned
Tim Walz Has Hit the Wall
The Saudis Spurn the Abraham Accords
Russia Hears From Lindsey Graham

Friday, August 07, 2026

‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site
Debunking the Allegedly Prohibitive Cost of Desalination
When Will The Climate Liars Stop Lying?
We Might Soon Have the Tech to Reach Other Star Systems
Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods
This new human genome has almost no gaps
AI creates first synthetic viruses
Venus May Still Be Tectonically Active and Pulling Itself Apart
Can Democrats Resist Socialism?
Is Israel Really Obligated to Lay Off Hamas?
New Project Engages Public on Moon Safeguarding
Intuitive Machines Becomes First Commercial Firm to Own Full Moon Mission Chain
A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned
Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned
The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned
America Needs to Go on Offense With AI
The FDA, Replimune and a New Flu Shot
Trump Fixes a Biden Medicare Trick

Thursday, August 06, 2026

NASA moon base: Administrator Jared Isaacman details plans for long-term presence
NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions
Most planned natural gas pipeline capacity additions in 2026 and 2027 originate in Texas
The market is wrong to hate SpaceX earnings
This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay
Scientists unveil more than 600 new tissue models of human cancer
The Vera Rubin Observatory Captures More Than 500,000 Galaxies in a Single Image
Irish leader's jet 'can't land in fog after he had its navigation system removed... because it was made in Israel'
The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned
El-Sayed’s Deflected Bigotry
Give John Adams His Place on the Mall
Success Builds in the South Bronx

Wednesday, August 05, 2026

NASA's Jared Isaacman Wants America Back on the Moon — and Beyond
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott effectively pauses new data center projects pending statewide grid audit
NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations
Next Starship Will Deliver Operational V3 Starlinks to Orbit, Maybe Catch Ship
NASA’s moon base will be a reality and Americans will live there within 20 years, agency’s chief says
SpaceX earnings takeaways: Soaring AI costs outweigh revenue beat in first report since IPO
Huge SpaceX rocket part believed to have hit Moon as Nasa prepares to study crash
Climate Crusaders Turn to Flimsy ‘Extreme Event Attribution’ to Bring Down Oil, Gas, and Coal
Interstellar Travel II: the Birth of Fusion Drives
How scientists are perfecting chocolate
Pluto’s Atmosphere May Finally Be Starting to Collapse
Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
New Stroke Treatment Turns Brain Cavities Into Repair Hubs
Learning to Live With AI
Democratic Socialism Is No Tea Party

Monday, August 03, 2026

Time to buy SpaceX?
Why Are Heterosexual Women Attracted to Each Other?
Hell-World Venus May Have Once Had Oceans Across 90% of Its Hot, Dry Surface
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Scientists finally find a way to recycle plastic indefinitely
This study suggests zapping people’s brains could make them better at math
A Brief History of Wealth Creation
Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned
How Green Policies Fuel Fires In Europe
The Public Pension AI Boom
This ‘Tiny’ Breakthough Could Make AI Data Centers Obsolete and Change Digital Storage Forever

Sunday, August 02, 2026

Flight 13 of Starship was (mostly) a triumph for SpaceX

The miracle of the latest test flight of the SpaceX Starship was not the launch, as spectacular as it always is. The true miracle of the Starship’s 13th flight occurred at the very end.

Ganymede is a moon, yet it is larger than the planet Mercury, may contain more water than exists on Earth's surface, and even generates its own magnetic field, making it less like a conventional moon than a full-sized world that happens to orbit Jupiter.
NASA Searches Couch Cushions, Finds Another $600 Million for Moon Missions
Inside JK Rowling’s rape support centre that took on Amnesty – and won
Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can’t think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged
Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned
NASA still assessing Starliner-1 flight opportunities
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
The True Cost of Decoupling from China