Mars
NASA scrapped its $11 billion plan to return samples from Mars to Earth by 2040.It now has not one but two new options to choose from — both are faster and cheaper.The samples could return as soon as 2035 and may contain the first-ever signs of ancient alien life.The Perseverance…
Mick Mulvaney said he doubts Musk can cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, per NYT.Mulvaney also told clients he doesn’t think Musk will be around long enough to his cuts through.Musk and Ramaswamy outlined their cost-cutting plans in a recent opinion piece.Mick Mulvaney, President-elect Donald Trump’s second chief of…
Rocket Lab’s stock price has soared to new heights in the wake of strong earnings.CEO Peter Beck told BI competing against better-funded rivals like SpaceX is its “superpower.”Beck, who practices founder mode, broke down his morning routine — which starts before 5 a.m. and doesn’t include coffee. Peter Beck runs…
Miley Cyrus has been sued by a company that claims her 2023 song “Flowers” intentionally copied Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” which was released in 2012.TMZ reported on Monday that Tempo Music Investments, which claims to hold a share of the copyright to Mars’ song, filed the lawsuit.…
The commercial space industry has boomed in recent years, with companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin leading the pack.Their respective founders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, essentially share the same dream: to expand humanity’s reach and build human settlements beyond Earth.But they each have different ideas of how to get…
NASA has invested $725,000 in a new rocket system that could solve one of the major obstacles standing in our way of sending humans to Mars: travel time.With current technology, a round-trip to the red planet would take almost two years. For astronauts, spending that much time in spaceflight comes…
The billionaire SpaceX CEO is so enamored with his vision of starting a colony on the red planet that he’s offered to donate his sperm to the cause, according to a report The New York Times published on Thursday.According to the report, which is based on over 20 interviews the…
Imagine a long tether linking Earth to space that could launch us to orbit at a fraction of the cost and slingshot us to other worlds at record speed.Instead of taking six to eight months to reach Mars, scientists have estimated a space elevator could get us there in three…
NASA bit off more than it could chew when it sent the Perseverance rover to Mars to collect samples.The $2.4 billion mission landed the rover in Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake. It’s the ideal spot to search for the fossils of Martian microbes that may have existed…
