Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded scathing posts on social media over the weekend, drawing new attention to the gap between vision and reality in the space computing business. In response to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said: “dude, you’re the one selling [sic] public market investors in near-term space data centers.”
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NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, where they will join the Expedition 74
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) authorized SpaceX to fly Starship prototypes again, after the company identified the probable cause of the rocket system’s booster stage failure during a flight in May. SpaceX said over the weekend that the next Starship flight could take place this Thursday, July 16. It would be the second release of
The enormous globular star cluster Omega Centauri has baffled astronomers for decades. It should be full of black holes left by exploding stars, but the evidence for them is scarce. Now, astronomers using archival data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and supporting observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have finally located their first stellar-mass