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Largest ever chunk of Mars which fell to Earth in meteor strike goes up for auction

"NWA 16788 is a discovery of extraordinary significance — the largest Martian meteorite ever found on Earth, and the most ...

Starbase is Elon Musk's city in Texas for SpaceX employees. Here's everything you need to know.

Starbase is Elon Musk's city in Texas for SpaceX employees. Here's the lowdown on its history, government, and controversy.

This company could save NASA’s doomed Martian Sample Return mission

NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has long been a point of contention for the agency, but now someone might have a plan to ...

OTD In Space - July 12: Communications Satellite Olympus Launched

On July 12, 1989, the European Space Agency launched an experimental communications satellite named Olympus-1. It was the ...

With Space Junk on the Rise, Is a Catastrophic Event Inevitable?

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Hint at Something Brutal, Scientists Say

When huge stars are denied a glorious death, something more brutal occurs, and you get mysterious signals known as fast x-ray transients.

Oasis Celebrate Reunion Tour Kick-Off With Massive ‘Complete Studio Album Collection’ Box Set

With their first two triumphant reunion shows under their belts, Oasis are not done giving the people what they want.

Supernova Study Reveals 'Danger To Planets'

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

Mars Chopper Concept Revealed By NASA For Red Planet Exploration

NASA has revealed a concept for the next generation of flight on the Red Planet, the "Mars Chopper." Credit: Space.com | ...

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Takes Off And Spins As Perseverance Watches

NASA Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured the Ingenuity helicopter's 54th flight on Mars last month. A camera onboard ...

Windsurf Gambit: How a $28M pivot became a $2.4B Google acquisition

I think startups are basically like getting slapped in the face probably over and over again," Varun Mohan told Y Combinator just months before Google paid $2.4B for his team. The weekend of July 11-12 proved that sometimes those slaps redirect you toward fortune.OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal collapsed Friday. By Monday, Google had the founders.The backstory reveals fascinating startup dynamics:*The $28M Pivot (2022)*: Windsurf was crushing it in GPU virtualization - $2M revenue, 8 employ

Attended Windsurf's Build Night 18 hours before founders joined Google DeepMind

Thursday evening: Windsurf hosted their first community build night in SF. 200 developers, live demos of Wave 10 (Planning Mode, browser integration), MCP plugin architecture, real projects built in hours.Friday afternoon: OpenAI acquisition canceled, CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen join Google DeepMind for agentic coding initiatives. The timing is remarkable. We witnessed what may have been the final public appearance of Windsurf's founding team as an independent company, compl

Show HN: DesignArena – crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated UI/UX

I’ve been using AI to generate some repetitive frontend (guilty), and while most outputs felt vibe-coded, some results were surprisingly good. So I cleaned it up and made a ranking game out of it with friends, and you can check it out here: https://www.designarena.ai/vote/vote: Your prompt will be answered by four random, anonymous models. You pick the one you prefer and crown the winner, tournament-style./leaderboard: See the current winning models, as dictated by voter

Show HN: GrokVocab – I Built a Vocabulary App Without Flashcards or Memorization

Hi HN,As a non-native speaker, I improved my vocabulary by reading English novels. At the time, it felt like a clever hack. It was hard and sometimes took me hours to read a single page(because I had to constantly look up words), but I pushed through because I enjoyed reading, especially fiction. I would never have put in the same effort to create flashcards or word lists and then memorize words. Learning works for me when it becomes a side effect of something engaging. Even now, if I want to le

329,000 mph nuclear rocket leading next era of space travel

'CyberGuy': 329,000 mph nuclear rocket leading next era of space travel. Tech expert Kurt Knutsson says 329,000 mph fusion rocket promises to be fast, disruptive and enable deep-space missions.

Is Space Travel Making Climate Change Worse? - MSN

Space travel presents both opportunities and challenges for our planet’s climate. While it offers the promise of scientific breakthroughs and technological advancements, it also poses ...

‘Poaching centres,’: VP Jagdeep Dhankhar slams growing coaching institutes terming them ‘black hole’ for talent

"Remember, your marksheet (and) grade(s) will never define you. When you leap into the competitive world, your knowledge and thinking mind will define you," he said.

Coaching centres stifle student’s thinking, ‘black hole’ for talent: VP in Rajasthan’s Kota

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday slammed rapidly growing coaching centres, terming them “poaching centres” and “black hole” for talent. Dhankhar was speaking as the chief guest at the ...

How Star S2’s Orbit Proves Einstein’s Theory Near Black Hole

Thomas Mulligan explains how the orbit of star S2 near a black hole provides proof for Einstein’s theory of relativity.

What's at the center of a black hole? Scientists have a sobering answer.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...