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The 2000-W Sacagawea dollars were previously stored at the Fort Knox Bullion Depository. CREDIT: Stack’s Bowers Galleries Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Seven $1 coins that once traveled to space sold today in an auction. The sale prices ranged from $120,000…

WEBWIRE – Friday, September 12, 2025 The newly merged SES, one of the worlds largest satellite operators formed in the wake of its merger with Intelsat,unveiled a completely new brandtoday in a move rarely seen in the satellite industry. Central to this rebranding is the purpose statement, "Space to Make…

PepeCoin (PEPE), one of the leading memecoins in the market, holds a market cap of about $4.45 billion with a 24-hour trading volume of $483.05 million. Its strong community backing and rising popularity in the meme token space continue to drive attention to the memecoin’s price movements amid broader cryptocurrency…

The next Mario Bros. movie is out April 2026 and it still doesn’t have an official title. Unofficially, however, the titles has seemingly leaked thanks to recently registered domain names, and all signs point to a riff on Super Mario Galaxy. Per Wario64, the domain name supermariogalaxy.movie was registered by…

A bipartisan group of senators are pushing to label Russia a state sponsor of terrorism over kidnapped Ukrainian children, as momentum builds once again for a big, bipartisan Russia sanctions package.Why it matters: Russia's violation of Polish airspace this week has reignited the desire of Senate leaders for a strong…

Monika Luabeya Sep 11, 2025 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this sparkling scene of star birth in an image released on Sept. 4, 2025. Called Pismis 24, this young star cluster resides in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.…

Image courtesy Open Space A split view in Open Space Air's platform can show a site scan with or without utilities marked. Construction technology provider OpenSpace introduced a new auto-location service giving customers' smartphones real-time indoor positioning capabilities on construction sites, whether they're enclosed or not. The firm's Visual Intelligence Platform,…

Hitting an asteroid in the wrong place could accidentally make it more likely to impact Earth buradaki/Shutterstock If an asteroid was heading for a deadly impact with Earth, could we nudge it off course safely without making the situation worse? Yes, thanks to a new system for calculating the perfect…

WASHINGTON — Scientists have found potential evidence of past life on Mars in a rock sample collected by a NASA rover, even as the agency’s budget proposal would cancel plans to return those samples to Earth. At a Sept. 10 press conference, NASA officials and scientists discussed a paper published…

On-orbit render of a Millennium-built small satellite flying Spectrolab solar cells Credit: Boeing WASHINGTON — Boeing announced it has begun 3D printing the structural panels that form the backbone of satellite solar arrays, a step the aerospace giant says will cut production times in half and help it keep pace…