3+ hour, 2+ min ago   (493+ words) The decision came 14 days after SpaceX completed its acquisition of Anysphere, Cursor's parent company, in an all-stock transaction carrying an implied equity value of $60 billion. SpaceX's Aug. 14 SEC filing said Anysphere shareholders were entitled to receive 389.29 million shares of SpaceX…...

14+ hour, 44+ min ago   (656+ words) Anthropic discussed acquiring AI chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion to accelerate development of custom hardware for its growing AI business, but the acquisition talks are no longer active and have evolved into discussions about a potential partnership, according to…...

14+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1032+ words) A rocky slope beneath Utah's Mount Timpanogos is hiding a huge body of ice that contains about 1.55 million cubic meters of frozen water, enough to fill roughly 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to a University of Utah study published Aug. 26, 2026, in…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (502+ words) NASA's Pandora spacecraft began its science mission Aug. 25, roughly seven months after launching into low Earth orbit, with plans to study the atmospheres of at least 20 planets outside the solar system. The small satellite will look for atmospheric features including…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (677+ words) A sunspot region facing Earth produced five M-class solar flares on Aug. 25, including an M6.9 event that peaked at 10:02 UTC, prompting attention from space weather forecasters as a possible CME and a separate high-speed solar wind stream approach Earth later this…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (200+ words) Scientists have dated a rare Martian meteorite to 1.273 billion years old, offering the first sample from an approximately 1.8-billion-year gap in the geological record of Mars and pointing to a previously unsampled, pristine region deep inside the planet. Filling a…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1357+ words) China is preparing to send its most ambitious robotic lunar mission yet toward the Moon's south pole, with the Chang'e-7 mission scheduled for launch from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Aug. 24, as per the schedule provided by RocketLaunch.org....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (863+ words) NASA has demonstrated a potential way for spacecraft to navigate without relying on GPS, using its Starling mission to identify satellites and orbital debris and turn them into reference points for determining the spacecraft's own position. The experiment, called FALCON,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (907+ words) Earth may have started life under colder conditions than previously assumed, with energy from powerful eruptions on the young Sun potentially helping trigger the chemistry needed for complex organic molecules, according to astrobiologist Vladimir Airapetian and his colleagues. The idea…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (868+ words) A partially completed telescope has captured 22 compact bow shocks in the outer regions of the Helix Nebula, giving astronomers a rare look at how material expelled by a dying star is broken apart and returned to the space between stars....