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The Swiss pharmaceutical giant operates one of the last penicillin plants in Europe—losing it would raise new security and sovereignty challenges, says CEO Richard Saynor.
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Noctilucent Clouds over […]
The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a remote island’s underwater shelf.
Cowboy Space Corporation has unveiled the design for its new medium-lift "Big Iron" rocket that will double as its orbital data center satellite.Why it matters: U.S. demand for rockets is sky high.The private firm's C-Suite bets that building their own launch vehicle and reusing its components will lower costs.The offering also expands much-needed access for possible military and commercial payloads.Joseph Yaffe, Cowboy Space's chief operating officer, told Axios on Monday that the company aims to build the first rocket by the end of 2027."Big Iron" — a reference to the famous country western tune by Marty Robbins — is targeting its first flight in 2028.The rocket will bolster the company's ambitions for its 20,000-satellite "Stampede" constellation.What they're saying: "We set out to build data centers in space and found there weren't enough rockets to get them there, so we're building our own," Baiju Bhatt, Cowboy Space's CEO and founder, said in a press release."Opening it to the rest of the industry makes every flight safer and more efficient, and gives the country another path to orbit," he said.Zoom in: "Big Iron's" upper stage has deployable radiators and is designed to rem…
The Earth’s magnetic field is responsible for shielding us from harmful space weather, including solar radiation from the Sun but also cosmic rays originating from outside our solar system. Cosmic rays can include deep space supernovas, so the magnetic field takes the majority of the brunt from solar radiation. Without our magnetic field, the solar wind would slowly strip away our atmosphere, making life on our small, blue world impossible to exist. But where is the magnetic field doing the heaviest lifting regarding how it filters out incoming space radiation?
Spacex has secured a roughly $40 billion equipment financing commitment as CEO Elon Musk predicts failures among specialized AI cloud providers. The conditional agreement would fund computing hardware, with deliveries expected in the first half of 2027. Spacex Secures Conditional Financing for AI Equipment Apollo Global Management disclosed the approximately $40 billion equipment financing commitment […]
Both coasts are dealing with flooding. In the West, El Niño and full moon tides are bringing rising water, while the East is dealing with what's known as the King Tide. Rob Marciano has the latest.
Vice President Vance announced Monday that the Agriculture Department is announcing millions of dollars in new grants toward meatpacking facilities. He made the announcement while campaigning for Sen. Roger Marshall (R) in Kansas. He said the grants would go towards 10 meatpacking facilities in the state. He said it “could not have happened without Doc…
The Lazuli Space Telescope will be the first private space telescope. It's the brainchild of Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO. It will have a 3-meter mirror (9.8 feet), larger than Hubble's 2.4-meter mirror (7.9 feet), and will be launched by 2029.
Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis within Mars’ Jezero Crater was stitched together using 217 images acquired by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. While it is a wind-swept dusty vista today, billions of years ago it was home to a river channel that fed fresh water into […]
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has officially ended its mission after more than 20 years, as it approaches a fiery reentry through Earth's atmosphere.
Vice President JD Vance was in Belgrade, Montana, on Monday afternoon, and he will rally with Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) in Topeka, Kansas, on Monday evening. Vance’s blitz comes eight days before the 2026 midterm elections, as he and President Donald Trump are looking to protect their Republican majorities in Congress. 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS LIVE […]
Written by Margaret Deahn, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University Oct. 19, 2026 Once upon a time, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover investigated the southern border of “Idubi,” an outcrop composed primarily of an igneous mineral geologists call olivine. The rover’s “eyes” captured a very exciting geologic feature during its traverse — a contact between distinct rock […]
According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Ukraine violated Starlink's rules. He said it used the civilian satellite internet network for an offensive drone strike. Ukrainian officials dispute the statement. Clayton Swope, deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project at CSIS, joins CBS News to discuss.
Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover measured the fine and ultrafine Martian dust particles found clinging to samples of spacesuit materials that are carried aboard the rover, including some that are small enough to penetrate the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The findings will be published Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Proceedings of […]
How living underwater can prepare humans for space missions
Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor is mounted on an assembly ring during inspections in a clean room at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in July 2026. The sunshade structure stands 20 feet (6 meters) tall and measures 8 feet (2.4 meters) wide at its base. Its two flat […]
Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is inspected by a technician at BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in late July. Built by Applied Aerospace in Stockton, California, the sunshade structure was outfitted with its solar cells by SolAero Technologies in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in January. Environmental […]
On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Here's why it mattered.
The NASA STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) Internship Program at the University of Texas Center for Space Research places high school students on small, mission-focused research teams mentored by NASA, academic, and industry experts. During summer 2026, the SEES Mission Architecture Tool for Research, Integration, and eXploration (MATRIX) team […]
If you only knew the power of the infinity stones!
NASA has officially ended the mission of its Swift Observatory, after a private satellite failed to meet up with the aging spacecraft in orbit.
Cosmologists have another powerful simulation to work with. Lumina is the one of the largest and most detailed cosmological simulations yet and runs on the Frontier supercomputer. It's larger and more detailed than Illustris TNG.
Elon Musk says SpaceX closed a $40 billion chip deal with Apollo while lenders shut the door on smaller AI cloud firms, a split that could decide who controls computing.
Keanu Reeves is set to star in Maelstrom, a new Netflix action flick from Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Reeves takes over the lead from Reacher‘s Alan Ritchson, who exited the project for undisclosed reasons. Reps for Netflix declined to comment. In Maelstrom, a Federal Marshal assigned to protect the fiancée of […]
"28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 12 seconds. That is when the world will end."
Ty Jerome's fantasy stock is seemingly on a rocket ship, but should fantasy basketball managers keep the faith in Myles Turner and Onyeka Okongwu?
Halloween is just round the corner, but if you hurry, you can beam down these superb Star Trek outfits, from old-school Star Trek through to The Next Generation and Discovery.
Space experts said a suspected "space object" found in a rural Minnesota cornfield earlier this month might be a piece of a Chinese rocket launched in September.
Two main characters get caught in a deadly situation in Marshals Season 2, Episode 4, and it may lead to real trouble for one of them.