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Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast?
Most of us can call up such pictures in our minds. We can visualize the past and summon images of the future….
Artemis II won’t lift off for the moon this week after an overnight launch rehearsal revealed that NASA’s mega moon rocket is leaking hydrogen fuel.
The Artemis II mission was scheduled to take four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon as…
February 3, 2026
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Elon Musk fuses SpaceX with xAI
Acquiring xAI could boost SpaceX’s plans to launch a one-million-strong satellite constellation to act as an orbital data center network
The solar system is home to many planets, meteors, satellites… and one asteroid that’s said to be worth an eyewatering amount.
The Psyche asteroid was explored by a special spacecraft, and the reality may just blow your mind….
Nasa has postponed its historic mission to send astronauts around the moon and back again, after issues arose during a critical test of its most powerful rocket yet.
The US space agency had planned to launch the Artemis II mission from Kennedy…
A 2,200-year-old bone unearthed in Spain may be from one of Hannibal’s war elephants that was deployed during the Second Punic War, a new study reports.
The baseball-size bone, found near the southern Spanish city of Córdoba, may be the only…
A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday.
The space agency’s Interstellar…
New research bolsters the theory that a prehistoric adolescent was mauled by a wild animal—likely a bear—in what is now Italy tens of thousands of years ago.
In 1942, the remains of a young adult dating back to between 27,900…
