Mars has been the answer for as long as humans have been able to look up at it. Domed cities. Brave settlers tilling the rust-coloured soil. A second chance for our species after we’ve finished wrecking the first one. The reality is something else. Mars is not a frontier waiting patiently for us. Mars is, […]

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Imagine being ninety years old, strapping into a rocket, and shooting yourself out of the atmosphere. Most people in their nineties are slowing down. Watching their grandkids run around the yard. Reading the morning paper. Not William Shatner. In October 2021, the legendary Star Trek actor became the oldest person ever to fly to space, […]

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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union held a meeting in Prague and voted to demote Pluto. Roughly 424 members were in the room when the vote happened. The world’s planetary scientists, the people who actually study planets for a living, were not consulted in any binding way. Within hours, textbooks were rewritten, classroom posters were […]

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When people imagine where alien life might be, they tend to look outward. Exoplanets. Distant star systems. Some half-mythical planet around a star we’ll never visit. But here’s the strange truth most people never sit with. Scientists think life might exist right here, in our own solar system. Not little green men. Not Star Trek. […]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s company just made one of the most unusual energy deals in tech history. On April 27, Meta announced a first-of-its-kind agreement to source up to one gigawatt of electricity from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, energy that will eventually flow to the AI data centers that increasingly define its business. The partner is Overview […]

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Elon Musk is suing the company he helped found for $134 billion. He also happens to own its largest competitor. That uncomfortable fact sits at the center of the trial that opened in San Francisco this week, where Musk is asking a court to remove Sam Altman, unwind OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, and block its planned […]

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When Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz earlier this year, energy markets twitched and global headlines lit up. A narrow stretch of water, a handful of tankers, and suddenly the world economy was holding its breath. Now imagine the same chokepoint dynamic playing out a quarter of a million miles away. That comparison […]

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A manufacturing issue involving a European company has resulted in corrosion in modules produced for both the lunar Gateway and Axiom Space’s commercial space station.

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I keep a folder on my laptop labeled \"missions that justified themselves.\" Cassini-Huygens lives at the top of it. Not because the science was prettier than other deep-space program

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