TSMC’s decision to upgrade its second Kumamoto facility from mid-range chip production to cutting-edge 3nm technology is the clearest signal yet that semiconductor manufacturing is being reorganized around geopolitical alliances rather than market efficiency. The upgrade, confirmed through Taiwan’s Department of Investment Review, will give the Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) plant a planned monthly […]

The post Japan’s $4.6 Billion Bet on TSMC’s 3nm Chips Is Really a Bet on Alliance-Based Industrial Policy appeared first on Space Daily.

A projectile reportedly struck near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, with reports indicating one security worker killed and at least five others injured. The strike, allegedly part of a broader wave of military operations against Iranian targets, has prompted international calls for military restraint around nuclear facilities. The IAEA confirmed that no increase […]

The post Strikes Near Bushehr: What the IAEA’s Urgent Warnings Actually Mean for Nuclear Safety appeared first on Space Daily.

China's Chang'e program went from lunar orbiter to sample return in fifteen years and has now placed a base module at the south pole — a pace of execution that reveals as much about institutional design as it does about engineering capability.

The post How China’s Chang’e program went from lunar orbiter to sample return in fifteen years and why its institutional model is reshaping the global space race appeared first on Space Daily.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander spent time on the lunar surface in early 2025, and the data it sent back may force scientists to redraw one of the oldest maps of the moon’s internal structure. Science results from a private spacecraft operating on the moon, reported at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March […]

The post The Moon’s Interior Isn’t What We Thought: Blue Ghost Data Upends Fifty Years of Thermal Models appeared first on Space Daily.