High-speed lunar dust could cloud the future of human missions to the Moon
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SpaceX’s test rocket catches fire after engine test
The second fireball | Image: LabPadre in cooperation with BocaChicaMaria1 A prototype version of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket caught fire last
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Elon Musk unveils Neuralink’s plans for brain-reading ‘threads’ and a robot to insert them
Photo: Neuralink Elon Musk’s Neuralink, the secretive company developing brain-machine interfaces, showed off some of the technology it has been
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Apollo was NASA’s biggest win — but its legacy is holding the agency back
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Facebook and CMU’s ‘superhuman’ poker AI beats human pros
AI has definitively beaten humans at another of our favorite games. A program, designed by researchers from Facebook’s AI lab
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Why fewer bug guts may be piling up on your car windshield
If you’ve ever taken a long road trip, you’ve likely experienced the rite of stopping at a gas station to
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Virgin Galactic to become the first space tourism company to go public
Virgin Galactic will soon become the first publicly traded space tourism company. A public shell company called Social Capital Hedosophia
Read MoreIsrael’s failed lunar lander will live on in the design of Firefly Aerospace’s new Moon spacecraft
Israel’s first lunar lander crashed into the Moon’s surface in April, but the design of the doomed spacecraft may live
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Now you can check in on Bill Nye’s solar sail as it orbits Earth
A new dashboard will let people track the progress of one of Earth’s most unique satellites from anywhere in the
Read MoreBitcoin consumes more energy than Switzerland, according to new estimate
Bitcoin consumes more energy than the entire nation of Switzerland, according to new estimates published by researchers at the University
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