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Tesla and SpaceX Break Ground on Terafab, a 16.8 Billion Dollar Texas Chip Plant
Tesla and SpaceX are building Terafab, a 16.8bn dollar Texas chip factory to feed their own AI, robotics and space compute. Here is what it means.
SpaceHow to watch the Perseid meteor shower 2026: peak night, times and kit
The Perseid meteor shower 2026 peaks overnight on 13 August under a new moon. When to look, where to stand, and the simple kit that helps you see more.
SpaceSpaceX Successfully Tests Starship's Reusable Heat Shield for Long-Duration Reentry
SpaceX has run a long-duration reentry test on Starship's hexagonal ceramic heat shield, reporting minimal tile loss compared to earlier flights. The test is pa
SpaceLHS 1140 b: First Confirmed Atmosphere on a Rocky Habitable-Zone World
Astronomers confirm the first atmosphere on a rocky planet in a habitable zone: LHS 1140 b, revealed by helium leaking into space, 49 light years away.
SpaceSpaceX's Starship Flight Nine Raised the Bar. Flight Ten Needs to Clear It.
SpaceX's Starship Flight Nine deployed Starlink satellites from orbit and caught the Super Heavy booster for the second time using the Mechazilla arms. Flight T
SpaceSpaceX's Starship Flight 9 Stuck the Landing and Here Is Why the Details Matter
SpaceX landed both stages of Starship for the first time on Flight 9, catching the Super Heavy booster at Starbase and bringing the upper stage down in a contro
SpaceA robot just ran a marathon on Mars
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SpaceNVIDIA's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Looks Like in Practice
Three new satellites are now in orbit with one specific job: helping detect and track wildfires faster than existing infrastructure can manage. The key is on-bo
SpaceMoonshot AI Paused Kimi K3 Signups Because It Ran Out of Capacity
Moonshot AI suspended new Kimi K3 subscriptions days after the model topped a major coding leaderboard, with demand outrunning its ability to serve it.
Space70 Countries Have Now Signed the Artemis Accords
Mauritius became the 70th nation to sign NASA's Artemis Accords on 17 July 2026, extending the framework for responsible space behaviour across every inhabited continent.
SpaceChina Lands a Rocket Booster on a Net at Sea, and It Isn't a Fluke
China's Long March 10B caught its own booster on a floating net during its maiden flight on 10 July, becoming only the second country to recover an orbital-class booster after flight.
SpaceAn Earth-Sized World Sits in Its Star's Habitable Zone, 25 Light-Years Away
Astronomers confirmed GJ 3378b, a planet roughly twice Earth's size orbiting inside its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, in a paper published 1 July 2026.
SpaceJapan's Hayabusa2 Flew Past a Second Asteroid on Its Extended Mission
JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which already delivered a sample of asteroid Ryugu to Earth, completed a flyby of near-Earth asteroid Torifune this fortnight as part of its extended mission.
SpaceStarship's 13th Flight Aborted Itself, and That's the Point of Testing
Starship Flight 13 aborted seconds before liftoff on 16 July after four Super Heavy engines failed to ignite. SpaceX is targeting a retry on 23 July.
SpaceIndia's First Private Rocket Just Made It to Orbit
India just hit a milestone that's been years in the making: a privately developed rocket reached orbit for the first time on its debut launch. It puts the count
SpaceIndia's Wildfire Satellites Show What Targeted Space Tech Can Do
Three new Google-backed satellites have launched with one purpose: catching wildfires before they grow uncontrollable. With wildfire smoke choking parts of Nort
SpaceKimi Is the Chinese AI Model That Western Labs Should Stop Ignoring
Kimi, the AI assistant from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, is attracting serious attention for its reasoning performance and long-context capabilities, with benchma
SpaceSpaceX Scrubs Starship Flight 13 Twice in 24 Hours
SpaceX tried to launch Starship's 13th flight test this week and had to abort, not once but twice, after engine ignition problems with the Raptor start sequence
SpaceSpaceX Is Gearing Up for Starship's 13th Test Flight This Week
Starship Flight 13 is coming this week, and SpaceX is pushing further on re-entry performance and on-orbit propellant transfer, two things that are absolutely c
SpaceIntel and Musk's Terafab Is Now a $119 Billion Bet on Texas
Terafab, the Intel, Tesla and SpaceX chip factory, could cost up to $119 billion. Here is what the Texas mega-fab means for the global chip supply chain.
SpaceChina's Long March 10B Just Nailed a Sea Landing on Its First Flight
China's reusable Long March 10B rocket flew, dropped a satellite in orbit, and landed at sea on its debut. Here's why a first-flight recovery matters.
SpaceReed Jobs Is Building a Cancer Moonshot and Doesn't Want Your Sympathy
Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, is running a cancer research organisation called Yosemite with one stated goal: curing cancer, not managing it. The organisation u
SpaceBlue Origin Is Raising $10 Billion at a $130 Billion Valuation
Blue Origin funding hits a new gear: $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation, Bezos' first big outside round. Here is what it means for the space race.
SpaceVenus Aerospace Raises 90 Million Dollars to Build a New Kind of Rocket Engine
Venus Aerospace has raised 90 million dollars to push its rotating detonation rocket engine closer to production, a technology that promises significantly highe
SpaceNASA Launched an Emergency Mission to Save the Swift Observatory From Crashing to Earth
NASA just pulled off an emergency reboost of the Swift Observatory, a 22-year-old gamma-ray telescope that was slowly falling out of orbit. Working with satelli
SpaceAstronomers just found a habitable-zone planet 25 light-years away, and that distance is the whole story
A newly confirmed planet sits in its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, close enough for the next wave of telescopes to actually study its air.
SpaceSpaceX Has Now Launched 1,000 Rockets. Here Is What That Number Actually Means.
SpaceX has hit 1,000 rocket launches, a number that took the entire US space programme 50 years to approach across all vehicles. The milestone mostly reflects F
SpacePrivate Pilots Are Now Flying Orbital Missions for the US Space Force
Private space pilots are now flying actual orbital missions for the US Space Force, a significant step that blurs the line between commercial spaceflight and na
SpaceSpaceX is building data centres in orbit, and the numbers are serious
SpaceX's AI1 satellite is a solar-powered data centre in low Earth orbit, designed to run AI inference workloads from space. Here is what it is, why it works, and what it means.
SpaceSpaceX signs a $6.3 billion AI compute deal with Reflection AI
Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million a month for Nvidia GB300 chips at the Colossus 2 data centre, a deal worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029.
SpaceWebb found methane on an interstellar comet. It rewrites where comets come from.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detected methane on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, pointing to an alien origin 12 billion years old.
SpaceNASA is sending a robot to save a falling telescope. It has weeks to act.
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is dropping out of orbit faster than expected. A startup called Katalyst Space launched a robotic spacecraft on June 30 to push it back up.
SpacePlanet Nine just got harder to believe in
New observations of distant Kuiper Belt objects show more stable orbits than the Planet Nine hypothesis predicts, weakening the case for a hidden giant planet beyond Neptune.
SpaceThe Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.
NASA moved the Roman Space Telescope's launch date eight months forward to August 30, 2026. It will survey a billion galaxies and hunt dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
SpaceStarship Flight 13 is targeting July 31. Here is what is different this time.
SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 13 for a July 31 launch attempt using two new V3 vehicles, after completing a static fire test in June.
SpaceChina's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon
China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample return from an Earth quasi-satellite.
SpaceNASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will survey a billion galaxies and transform our understanding of dark energy.
SpaceA Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago
Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published in Nature Astronomy, it's one of the clearest geological records of a nearby neutron star merger ever found.
SpaceAstrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues
Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II mission stays on track, and the commercial lunar sector keeps consolidating.
SpaceThe largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone
AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to deliver broadband directly to standard smartphones, no dish required.
SpaceNASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you
Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the Moon. Here's what it will actually do, and why that matters.
SpaceAriane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters
On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The mission also debuted the more powerful P160C boosters.
SpaceNASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to Launch Mars Mission in 2028
NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028. The mission will be