SpaceX Puts Humans in Orbit Over Earth’s Poles for the First Time
Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight.
Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew ...
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GnomeLink Beta Testing Begins, Providing An Innovative Underground Broadband Connection Globally
The coming era of truly global broadband connectivity took another step forward today with the announcement and beta launch ...
SpaceX launches private astronaut crew in Fram2 polar-orbiting mission
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit ...
‘Việt and Nam’ Director Trương Minh Quý on the Dream Logic of Queer Cannes Contender and Why It Always Had to End the Way It Did
The filmmaker walks IndieWire through the deliberate logic of his dreamy film, and why talking about its ending might not be ...
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Chile’s lithium boom promises jobs and money — but threatens a critical water source
The Atacama Desert is a major source of lithium for EV batteries. As global demand ramps up, the local Lickanantay people are ...
The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, ...
Supercomputers Are Simulating the Universe to Unlock Its Darkest Secrets
Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together ...
America’s Underground Lab overhauls its WWII era wooden mine shaft
Lead, SD, March 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in the Black Hills of South Dakota is America’s Underground Lab – with cutting-edge experiments in biology ...
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What to know about the stranded NASA astronauts returning to Earth after nine months in space
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are finally making their way back to Earth after an eight-day mission to space turned into a nine-month-long hiatus at the International Space Station.
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A “Sputnik Moment” in Deep Sea Mining
China’s deep-sea mining deal with the Cook Islands risks leaving the United States behind in critical minerals essential for energy, defense, and tech.