A new private moon lander could take flight just a few years from now.
Impulse Space — a commercial space company founded by Tom Mueller, the first employee the billionaire Elon Musk ever hired at SpaceX — announced on Tuesday (Oct. 14) that it plans to build a robotic moon lander to help open the lunar frontier.
“To echo President John F. Kennedy, going to the moon is hard. But we know…
A giant weak spot in Earth's magnetic field is getting bigger — and it could be bad news for satellites
October 16, 2025
A weak region in Earth’s magnetic field has grown by an area roughly half the size of continental Europe in the last 10 years.
That’s according to data collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm satellite constellation over the last 11 years.
Did a NASA exoplanet-hunting balloon really 'crash' in Texas? Not according to the scientist behind the flight
October 16, 2025
A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting experiment on board, got a little confused after touchdown.
When the…
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers
October 16, 2025
While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by the availability of specific individuals. When a colleague with vital information is away – whether on vacation or in a different time zone – the rest of the team must delay progress until that person responds.
Ashutosh Garg and Varun Kacholia, the…
Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices
October 16, 2025
Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale its agentic deployments across carriers and agencies globally.
The all-equity round values the three-year-old startup at $300 million…
Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft
October 16, 2025
AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has signed a sizable deal with Microsoft to bring Nvidia AI hardware to multiple data centers.
The AI cloud provider announced on Wednesday that it signed a deal with Microsoft to bring approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to three data…
These amazing images showcase contemporary photography at its finest – and just won big at BIFA 2025
October 16, 2025
The winners of the Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (BIFA) have just been announced, and this year’s selection is as visually striking as it is emotionally powerful.
From abstract visual poetry and explorations of identity, to photographs that bring us face-to-face with intimate human stories, the BIFA 2025 proves – yet again – the transformative power of contemporary…
When photographer Alejandro Cegarra set out for the US-Mexico border in 2018, he wanted to capture the struggles of migrants in a way that highlighted universally human emotions. After nearly seven years and 35,000 photographs, Cegarra’s The Two Walls series has earned the…
I'm not a landscape photographer, but I tried using my phone for landscape photography – and I’m impressed!
October 16, 2025
I’m not a landscape photographer. I’ve taken photographs of landscapes for assignments when they fit a story, but a traditional landscape photographer I am not.
I’ve recently come to realize that I don’t have the patience for what most people consider…
What if your morning commute didn’t involve gridlock on the 395 or the Orange Line crawl, but instead meant silently flying over the Potomac River at 30 knots? That’s exactly what Stockholm-based Candela is bringing to Washington D.C. this week with the U.S. demo debut of its flying electric boats.
While it doesn’t appear to be a permanent route nor make use of the company’s latest…
