North Korea is testing missiles faster than at any point in recent memory — and the acceleration matters more than any single launch. Multiple ballistic missiles fired off the eastern coast early Sunday represent not just another provocation but a fundamental change in how Pyongyang develops and displays its weapons capability. With a Trump-Xi summit […]

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NASA is preparing to deliberately ignite fires on the lunar surface. The Flammability of Materials on the Moon (FM2) experiment, developed by NASA Glenn Research Center, Johnson Space Center, and Case Western Reserve University, will send a self-contained combustion chamber to the Moon aboard a Commercial Lunar Payload Services flight. The reason is uncomfortable for […]

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Dark energy — the invisible force accelerating the universe’s expansion — may not be the fixed constant physicists have assumed for a quarter century. That is the quietly seismic possibility emerging from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, which has just completed the largest high-resolution 3D map of the cosmos ever constructed: 47 million galaxies and […]

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Ambition compounds like debt, and somewhere in your late thirties the bill arrives addressed to a person you no longer quite recognize. What the burnout research actually says about why goals stop feeling like destinations.

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UNIFIL is dying. Not in the dramatic, singular way that makes for breaking news, but in the slow, compounding way that institutions die — one ambush, one unanswered attack, one ignored mandate at a time. The killing of a French peacekeeper in southern Lebanon, shot dead in a deliberate ambush while trying to open a […]

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NASA just paid SpaceX $175 million to launch a Mars rover that the White House is simultaneously trying to kill. The contract, announced in April by NASA, sends Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars aboard a Falcon Heavy in late 2028 — marking the first time Elon Musk’s company will deliver a payload to the […]

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Brent crude closed Friday in the high $80s per barrel, its lowest level in recent weeks, after Iran’s foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping for the duration of a 10-day Israel-Lebanon ceasefire. By Saturday morning, Tehran had partially walked the statement back. The oil market’s whipsaw reaction over 24 hours […]

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The most destabilizing conflicts in long-duration crews aren't about resources or command authority — they're about the social allocation of solitude. Why the role of 'the quiet one' becomes the most contested position on any isolated team, and what it means for Mars.

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There's a piece of Cold War infrastructure in the Mojave Desert that has been silent since September 16, 2025, and almost no one outside a small circle of deep space mission planners ha

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