SpaceX sets new time for Crew-12 launch to ISS — here’s how to watch

SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the next crewed flight to the International Space Station (ISS) due to unfavorable weather conditions in the ascent corridor. The launch team had been targeting Wednesday, February 11, for liftoff, but is now …

FCC accused of withholding DOGE information ‘in bad faith’
FCC accused of withholding DOGE information ‘in bad faith’

One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents “in bad faith” and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information. “Thus […]

NASA astronauts can now carry their iPhones on missions to click epic space photos

NASA’s new policy lets astronauts carry smartphones on missions like Crew-12 and Artemis II, opening the door to more candid, personal views of life in orbit and beyond Earth.
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Watch this snowbot crush 130,000 steps for an Olympic moment

Robotics specialist Unitree has been making waves with its humanoid robots, and a new video shows its impressive G1 bipedal bot dealing with incredibly cold conditions. In a video showing the G1 trudging through deep snow, Unitree describes the feat as…

NASA astronauts can now bring their phones with them on their mission to the moon

Get ready for some selfies that are out of this world. Crew-12 is expected to head to the International Space Station next week, while the highly anticipated Artemis II mission — which will bring humans around the moon for the first time since the 196…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.

While NASA’s lunar dreams wait, another crew eyes orbit

NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years won’t be getting underway this month after all. It had been targeting February 6 for the launch of the much-anticipated Artemis II mission that will take four astronauts on a flight around the moo…

Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says
Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging two of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, in a deal said to be worth $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said in an announcement, was that in order for AI to grow, it needed to go to space. AI relies on “large terrestrial data centers” that run […]

NASA’s skywatching tips for February include a planetary parade and a moon mission

NASA has released its monthly skywatching update on what to look out for over the coming weeks, and you can probably guess which event tops the list. That’s right: the Artemis II mission. NASA is about to launch a crew on a voyage around the moon in wh…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially acquires Elon Musk’s xAI, with plan to build data centers in space

The merger creates the world’s most valuable private company, and paves the way for Musk to try and prove out the usefulness of space-based data centers.