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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 7, 2025 SpaceX's rockets ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station. Its Starlink satellite constellation blankets the globe with broadband, and the company is embedded in some of the Pentagon's most sensitive projects, including tracking hypersonic missiles. So when President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to cancel Elon Musk's federal contracts, space watchers snapped to attention. Musk, the world's richest person, shot back that he would mothball Dragon - the capsule NASA relies ... read more |
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![]() Tokyo (AFP) June 6, 2025 Japan's hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025 Robert Zubrin quite literally wrote the book on why humanity should go to Mars - so why has the renowned aerospace engineer soured on Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur leading the charge? ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2025 The idea of making a Bitcoin price prediction for 2025 is a quite debated subject in the crypto sector, while both analysts and investors are interested in grasping knowledge about what the future holds for the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025 A crewed mission to Mars would rank among the most complex and costly undertakings in human history - and US President Donald Trump has vowed to make it a national priority. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 5, 2025 One of NASA's top ozone depletion and air pollution scientists, credited with enhancing local air pollution measurement tools and dozens of other climate related research advancements, has died at the age of 80. ... more |
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![]() London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days - and was then repeated a month later. Almost a year later, two scientific studies prop ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) June 6, 2025 SpaceX chief Elon Musk said Thursday he would begin "decommissioning" his company's Dragon spacecraft - vital for ferrying NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station - after US President Donald Trump threatened to terminate his government contracts. ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 09, 2025 Skip the birthday dates and lucky charms. BoyleSports crunched the numbers to uncover the 5 most drawn lottery numbers. The research looked into 1,007 draws dating all the way back to the 10th Oct 2015, with the latest being May 31st, 2025. ... more ![]() ![]() Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living. A new analysis of the species that lived or died out in the wake of the as ... more |
![]() New Delhi (AFP) June 5, 2025 Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla blasts off into space next week as the first Indian to join the International Space Station (ISS), bearing with him New Delhi's dreams of its own manned space flight. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Voyager Technologies, Inc. (Voyager) reports it has commenced the roadshow for its proposed underwritten initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock. In addition, the un ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. ("iRocket"), a reusable space rocket developer, and BPGC Acquisition Corp. ("BPGC"), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by The Hon. Wilbur Ross, the ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 China launched its 33rd rocket mission of the year on Thursday, successfully placing a new remote-sensing satellite into orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. announced. A Long March 4 ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Impulse Space reports it has raised $300 million in a Series C funding round-one of the largest venture rounds in the history of the space industry. The round, led by Linse Capital, brings Impulse's ... more |
![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 04, 2025 RESILIENCE is the spacecraft element of ispace Mission 2 "SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon", the latest step in the company's lunar exploration programme. It launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fro ... more ![]() ![]() Paris, France (SPX) Jun 03, 2025 )The next time astronauts step onto the Moon, viewers will experience it in stunning high-definition color and at up to 60 frames per second. This marks a significant leap forward from the grainy bl ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 A newly discovered cluster of eleven quasars has shattered the previous record of five. Rather than being associated with a dense group of galaxies, these quasars sit on the boundary between two gro ... more |
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![]() Paris (AFP) June 4, 2025 Astronomers announced Wednesday they have discovered a massive planet orbiting a tiny star, a bizarre pairing that has stumped scientists. ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 As federal funding cuts impact decades of research, scientists could turn to black holes for cheaper, natural alternatives to expensive facilities searching for dark matter and similarly elusive par ... more ![]() ![]() Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe. The universe expands over time, but how fast it's expanding see ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 4, 2025 SpaceX on Wednesday afternoon launched another batch of 27 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on the 15th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 rocket launch. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Tokyo Japan (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 Earthquakes generate ripple effects in the Earth's upper atmosphere, which can disrupt essential satellite-based communications and navigation systems. A team at Nagoya University, in collaboration ... more |
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![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning over two millennia, from 221 BC to 1911 AD, and providing detailed insight ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 In a significant advance for nuclear fusion research, the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics has achieved a new world record for the triple product dur ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Scientists analysing an ultra-hot giant planet believe it was formed by absorbing lightweight gases like methane evaporating from tiny space pebbles, whilst being bombarded with large rocky objects. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 04, 2025 Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics), a leading small satellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has been selected by the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea to build the first ... more |
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