Space Debris

“As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective,” NASA said in a press release. The spacecraft approached Mars from a high phase angle, or from the side opposite the Sun, making the planet appear as a thin crescent as Psyche moved in for the encounter. The wispiness…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has, at long last, filed its prospectus for what’s expected to be the largest initial public stock offering ever. In an S-1 filing brimming with glossy color photos of rockets and space, and peppered with pull quotes highlighting Musk’s musings, the company disclosed plans Wednesday to list…

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, at about 5:03 a.m. PDT by NASA’s Psyche mission as it approached the planet for a gravity assist. Captured by the spacecraft’s multispectral imager instrument, this was the last view of the whole planet before it…

SpaceX moves a Starship upper stage to the pad at its Starbase site for testing. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) A worker died at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company geared up for the debut launch of its Starship V3 megarocket. The…

Call it the Scream Controller Video Games have always had a bit of fun with easter eggs — from the original Xbox using garbled space transmissions from the Apollo missions in its main menu (remember being spooked by that?), to the hilariously ironic sign on the Gant Bridge in Grand…

Updated 18 May 2026 at 18:17 IST On the acting front, Alia and Ranbir will be seen sharing screen space in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Love And War. The project has been mounted on a grand scale and is being billed as Bhansali's most ambitious romantic drama to date. The film…

The TraCSS logo. Credit: NOAA WASHINGTON — A House appropriations bill would reverse plans by the administration to stop development of a civil space traffic management system. The commerce, justice and science (CJS) spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee on May 13 included $50 million for the Office…

Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The resulting map reveals how galaxies have evolved since the universe's infancy around 13 billion years ago and how they fall together in a vast structure…

Gold jewelry retailers are becoming more sought after by China’s top commercial districts. Malls with annual sales exceeding RMB 10 billion (USD 1.5 billion), including Deji Plaza in Nanjing, Hangzhou Tower, Wushang Mall in Wuhan, Beijing SKP, and Hangzhou MixC, have already introduced a large number of local high-end gold…

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live in one of Singapore's conservation shophouses?  On Sunday (May 17), the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) took to social media to offer a peek into 1925 Quarters — a co-living concept converted from heritage state property buildings at 79 to 95 Hindoo…