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As hopes rise around the Moon's estimated 1 billion tons of polar water ice, a new study pours cold water on visions of lunar megacities. Even with a 98% water recycling rate matching the ISS, a population of 1 million would exhaust that water supply in just about 100 years—revealing a hard limit on space colonization.
U.S.-based Muon Space achieved the first-ever in-orbit ignition of a solid-zinc Hall-effect thruster aboard its dedicated demonstration satellite, SERT-III. By completely eliminating high-pressure gas tanks in favor of a cheap, non-toxic solid metal propellant stable at room temperature, the company aims to dramatically streamline small-satellite manufacturing costs and launch-site operations.
The U.S. Department of Defense has formally deployed ChatGPT and Grok on its dedicated AI platform, GenAI.mil. Moving away from single-vendor dependence, the department aims to streamline logistics and procurement work within a secure environment for handling Controlled Unclassified Information.
The LZ detector, located 1,480 meters underground, has observed a single 248 keV nuclear recoil event. While the finding rules out standard WIMP models, its global significance remains at only 2.6σ, and verification continues through unanalyzed data and independent follow-up experiments.
Roughly 15,000 simulations show that irregularities in star streams can arise from the host galaxy's gravity alone, with no dark matter clumps required. The findings challenge the common practice of using optical shape alone to search for dark matter.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope has completed its launch and initial deployment. Over the next three months, the mission must still power up its instruments, achieve focus, and validate a ground data network that includes stations in Japan.
An explainer on the optics behind Roman Space Telescope's Hubble-class mirror and wide, repeated sky surveys, its approach to planet-hunting and dark-energy measurement, and what its technology means—and its limits—for future direct-imaging missions.
US company Interlune says it implanted helium into simulated ilmenite soil and reproduced heat-release characteristics matching Apollo lunar samples. The advance moves hardware development forward, but peer review and verification with actual helium-3 remain outstanding challenges.
NVIDIA's Q2 earnings, released August 26, 2026, showed revenue of $96.2 billion, beating market expectations. The unusual reversal in which GAAP net income exceeded Non-GAAP net income was driven by $7.7 billion in net equity securities gains, not GPU sales. The Q3 guidance of $108 billion—which would top the $96.2 billion actual result—still assumes zero data center revenue from China.
SpaceX plans to launch Vera Rubin-based AI satellites in Q4 2027. We examine what differs from ground-based racks, the average 175kW heat dissipation challenge, and where FCC approval stands.
