2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (967+ words) SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker led by Elon Musk, said on Monday it had acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence company controlled by Mr. Musk. By merging the companies, Mr. Musk provided a financial lifeline to xAI, which has spent…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago   (290+ words) Hegseth, 45, also got chummy with Jeff Bezos, 62, while touring the billionaire's Blue Origin rocket factory. The Fox News host-turned defense secretary, who would like to be called Secretary of War, took a joyride aboard a Northrop F-5 Tiger II military jet…...

13+ hour, 15+ min ago   (327+ words) Elon Musk is reportedly in "advanced talks" to merge his rocket company SpaceX with his artificial intelligence firm xAI. The two entities, each of which are privately held, have told some of their investors about the plans, Bloomberg reported Monday,…...

14+ hour, 44+ min ago   (439+ words) The enormous storms of impenetrable clouds covering Jupiter's surface make it nearly impossible for us to get a glimpse of what lies below. Any spacecraft attempting to get a closer look would be vaporized, melted, or crushed if it attempted…...

16+ hour, 38+ min ago   (383+ words) The agency will be led by Ngiam Le Na, a veteran public servant who previously served as deputy CEO of Singapore's Defence Science and Technology Agency and at DSO National Laboratories, the country's defense R&D organization. According to Tan,…...

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (430+ words) SpaceX is requesting permission to launch as many as 1 million satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to pull off Elon Musk's latest grand vision of putting data centers in space to do complex computing for artificial intelligence. In a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (359+ words) Technically, though, it's not a complete blackout on the Red Planet's surface at night. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which has been wandering the planet's deserted landscapes for almost 14 years, is outfitted with LED lights at the end of its robotic…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (888+ words) Elon Musk is running some of the world's most valuable companies. But they've been doing business with each other long before recent merger chatter around Elon Inc. The billionaire leads five major companies: Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, and xAI,…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (336+ words) They would need to produce stars at 100 percent efficiency, and that's not what we're used to seeing," he told Ars Technica. Galaxies cannot produce stars at more than 20 percent efficiency, at least that's what our current knowledge is." Thankfully, there…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (299+ words) The space just over our heads is becoming so clogged with satellites and satellite debris that it could devolve into a self-perpetuating trash cloud that could threaten future spaceflights and eventually rain down dangerous, fiery fragments onto us here on…...