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A new interview portrays the new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman as an enthusiastic leader committed to revitalizing NASA through bold policies, reduced bureaucracy, and partnerships.

This is a different kind of Moon race, one defined less by singular achievements and more by sustained presence and partnerships.

The successful Starship's Integrated Flight Test 11 (IFT-11) comes at a critical juncture in the intensifying US-China space race to return humans to the Moon.

This post chronicles some recent twists and turns of the debate on how to establish a permanent US presence on the Moon.

A billionaire’s rise and fall as Trump’s pick to lead NASA amid political and budget challenges.

A historic week saw OpenAI and Broadcom unleash a purpose-built AI inference accelerator, NASA launch its most powerful space telescope yet, physicists glimpse rare particle interactions at the LHC, and brain-computer interfaces take a leap toward practical intelligence. Each breakthrough represents a multi-billion-dollar bet on fundamentally different futures—from gigawatt-scale compute to million-mile cosmic observation.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026, bringing a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's to bear on cosmic mysteries from dark energy to exoplanets. The week's science news also featured a world-first AI-assisted brain surgery, Perceptron AI's open-weight robotics model Isaac 0.5, full-stack brain-computer interface advances, and a new form of the Hall effect discovered at Carnegie Mellon.

The space race is no longer about who explores the cosmos, but rather who exploits it, who sets the terms of access, and who captures the value generated up there.

Elon Musk announces priority on lunar city for faster human expansion in space.

Four astronauts test Orion spacecraft systems during a 10-day flight around the Moon and back to Earth.