China launched its Shenzhou-23 mission on Sunday, which will see a Chinese astronaut spend a full year in orbit for the first time, a crucial step in Beijing’s ambition to send humans to the Moon by 2030. The Long March 2-F rocket was scheduled to lift off at 11:08pm (1508 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch centre…
The United States will redouble efforts to ensure its return to the moon ahead of China and also establish an enduring presence on Earth’s natural satellite to entrench the country’s presence, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on Wednesday during a Senate confirmation hearing. Such a sense of…
Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is gearing up for another attempt to launch its giant New Glenn rocket, carrying two NASA satellites on their first journey toward Mars. The rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during a window between 2:57 and…
Elon Musk doesn’t just want to send astronauts to Mars — he wants to send your kids too. The SpaceX founder, who’s spent years trying to make life “multiplanetary,” shared an update in May that felt less like a corporate milestone and more like a recruitment video for humanity’s next big leap. In a video…
Mars may look calm and barren from afar, but beneath its quiet, dusty red surface lies a surprisingly dynamic atmosphere. Despite having an atmosphere less than 1% as dense as Earth’s, the winds on the Red Planet can reach speeds previously unimagined. Recent research published in Science Advances shows wind gusts and dust-devils topping 44 meters…
If Elon Musk’s 2018 battle for a US$56 billion payday seemed surreal to most average people, then the Tesla board’s proposal to offer him US$1 trillion over the coming decade is nothing short of eye-popping. But Musk’s temerity sits at the heart of an unresolved corporate conundrum amplified by the extraordinary stock market bubble inflating…
SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight on Monday, striving to make it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites as it did the last time. Starship – the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built – thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas just…
Elon Musk recently shared a breathtaking visual of SpaceX’s Starship, proudly emphasising that “no AI was used to design it.” The post serves as a reminder of the spacecraft’s real-world progress, contrasting with its almost science-fiction-like appearance in photographs by space photographer John Kraus. Musk’s comments also align with his long-stated Mars colonisation vision, first…
The step underscores how billionaire families are shifting from traditional, tightly held operations to corporate-style investment and philanthropy management structures. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ father, Mike Bezos, is moving to institutionalize the management of the family’s vast wealth by hiring a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for their family office, Aurora Borealis, according to a report…
NASA on Monday introduced 10 new astronauts, four men and six women selected from more than 8,000 applicants, to begin training for future flights to the International Space Station, the moon and, eventually, Mars. “One of these 10 could actually be one of the first Americans to put their boots on the Mars surface, which…