In a single afternoon on the Nasdaq, SpaceX did not just make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire — on paper it also lifted an estimated 4,400 current and former employees into millionaires, with around 400 sitting on stakes worth more than 100 million dollars. 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
A trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person’s breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
We often credit perks and pay for engagement at work, but one analysis found something else mattered more — meeting workers’ needs for autonomy, competence and connection, with well-being rising as stress and burnout fell 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
It was not Elon Musk but Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer who has turned his ambitions into operating reality since becoming SpaceX’s president in 2008, who helped ring the Nasdaq bell on Friday — the moment a company built on reusable rockets and satellite internet became, on paper, worth more than two trillion dollars. 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
SpaceX went public on Friday in the largest stock market debut in history, raising 75 billion dollars and closing its first day up 19 percent — turning a company its own founder once gave less than a 10 percent chance of survival into one worth more than two trillion dollars in a single session. 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
A single kilogram of conventionally farmed beef requires approximately 15,400 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of around 100 standard bathtubs, and generates approximately 99 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent of driving an average car about 250 miles. 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
NASA Study Challenges Theories on Where the Ingredients for Life Came From 1d ago Universe Today · Matthew Williams
Earth’s largest waterfall is hidden underwater in the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland, where dense cold water plunges about 3,500 meters down the seafloor, far exceeding any waterfall on land in drop height and volume 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Ever have a scary HR meeting on your calendar? That's how the Artemis 3 crew found out their assignments 1d ago Space.com · Josh Dinner
SpaceX Soars on Nasdaq Debut: Record $75 Billion IPO Powers 19% First-Day Surge, Elon Musk Becomes World’s First Trillionaire 1d ago New Space Economy · NSE Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
China successfully debuts tallest rocket, LandSpace prepares for second landing attempt 1d ago NASA Spaceflight · Martin Smith Launch ServicesSpace Propulsion
SpaceX shares rise nearly 20% in historic IPO 1d ago SpaceNews · Jeff Foust Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
Vietnam’s Son Doong is the world’s largest cave passage, with a volume of about 38.5 million cubic meters and sections reaching 200 meters high and 150 meters wide, large enough that a 40-story skyscraper could stand inside it 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
SpaceX's stock wasn't the company's only launch today — It also put 29 Starlink satellites in orbit 1d ago Space.com · Robert Z. Pearlman Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
Japan's H3 rocket bounces back from failure with successful return to flight launch carrying 6 satellites 1d ago Space.com · Josh Dinner
A single day on Mercury, from one sunrise to the next, lasts 176 Earth days, which is two full Mercury years 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
Could the secret to black hole formation be locked away in this record-breaking ancient quasar? 1d ago Space.com · Keith Cooper
Astronomers fear orbital data centers will interfere with observations 1d ago SpaceNews · Jeff Foust Launch ServicesSatellite Communications
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science? 1d ago Ars Technica Space · John Timmer
People in the longest living populations on Earth tend to eat roughly four to five times as many beans as the average Westerner — black beans in Nicoya, fava beans and chickpeas in Sardinia and Ikaria, soybeans in Okinawa — making beans the single most consistent dietary feature across communities where reaching 100 is not unusual, in a finding that has held up across decades of longevity research 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
A survey of over 300,000 Americans found that well-being doesn’t simply fade with age — it bends into a U, high in youth, sinking to a low around 50, then quietly climbing back up into old age, against what many expect 1d ago Space Daily · Space Daily Editorial Team
A failure to launch: Politics, grievances, and an AI filibuster derail CSA briefing 1d ago SpaceQ · Marc Boucher
