NASA Administrator Bill Nelson balked at an estimated $1 billion cost to refurbish a Moon rover for reuse, according to a report. The rover, originally built for the canceled Resource Prospector missi…
SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company on Tuesday will feature investor questions ranging from Starship's lunar lander footage to painting the rocket pink, with many retail investors priorit…
In an R&D experiment, HUQAN paired its agentic framework with the ultra-lightweight OPT-125M language model to test whether a trust hierarchy could prevent hallucination and self-validation loops. The…
A SpaceX rocket upper stage will unintentionally crash into the moon on Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, creating a crater and a plume of debris, according to space tracking expert Bill Gr…
AI is compressing digital work, with 139,156 tech-sector job cuts in the first half of 2026, 83% more than the same period in 2025, and AI cited in over 101,000 cuts across U.S. employers, according t…
Spacesphere Live offers a free real-time Earth and space education portal featuring a photorealistic 3D globe, live satellite tracking, earthquake and weather layers, and AI-powered mission briefs, wi…
A former NASA robotics chief, Dr. Robert Ambrose, now chairman of robotics and AI at Alliant, said space-based data centers could free AI processing from land-based energy grids by using solar arrays …
Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, cofounder and CEO of Waterlily, has raised nearly $10 million for her AI startup after her aunt's cancer diagnosis inspired her to shift from aerospace engineering to building…
Michigan State University researchers found that an AI system trained to distinguish between digital organisms that can replicate and those that cannot became almost 100 percent certain that nonliving…
Midjourney has acquired Co-Star, the personalized astrology app that uses NASA data and algorithmic processing, in a deal that closed earlier this spring. The acquisition signals Midjourney's move fro…
Innovaccer CEO Abhinav Shashank walked away from clients like Disney and NASA in 2016 to pivot his data analytics company to healthcare, and the startup has now crossed $200 million in annual recurrin…
NASA joined the federal Genesis Mission on July 22, committing to apply artificial intelligence to more than 150 petabytes of scientific data from telescopes, satellites, orbiters, landers and aeronau…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has successfully demonstrated the first in-orbit use of a vision-language model, Google's Gemma 3, aboard Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite. The NAVI-Orbital system achie…
The White House announced more than $5 billion in federal AI commitments on July 22, 2026, selecting 278 projects across all 50 states and bringing NASA into the Genesis Mission 2026 initiative, which…
JuliaHub's Dyad AI agent harness tested OpenAI's GPT 5.6 family (terra, sol, luna) against Anthropic's claude-fable-5 on five sealed physical modeling problems, grading 52 runs against ground truth. G…
Manufact (YC S25), the company behind the open-source mcp-use SDK with 10k GitHub stars and 8M+ downloads, is hiring a senior infrastructure engineer to build its MCP cloud platform, which is used by …
NASA's Office of Inspector General concluded the agency likely avoided billions of dollars in additional spending by terminating or repurposing four Artemis campaign systems, a finding that parallels …
Icarus Robotics has selected KULR Technology Group to supply KULR ONE Space (K1S) battery systems for JOY, its autonomous free-flying platform scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in…
Sam Altman said space data centers will not be a serious business anytime soon, echoing what most experts already believe, in a social media exchange with Elon Musk over the weekend. Musk had accused …
WordCamp US 2026 will take place August 16-19 in Phoenix, Arizona, featuring four tracks including AI, Honing Your Skills, Technical WordPress, and Beginner WordPress. The event begins with Contributo…