Space Debris

Stakeholders have called for stronger citizen participation, transparency, and accountability in budgeting in Kaduna. The stakeholders made the call on Wednesday in Kaduna during the Civic Space Policy Dialogue 2.0 held as part of activities commemorating the 2026 Open Government Partnership Week. The dialogue, organised by Civil Impact for Sustainable…

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year. A filing shows that his SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on $18.7 billion in revenue,…

Thirty-six years ago this month, NASA released the first images from the newly launched Hubble Space Telescope, a cluster of stars located in the Carina constellation. A side-by-side comparison with an image of the same area captured by a terrestrial telescope showcased Hubble’s bright future returning much sharper observations from…

Elon Musk’s final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC. That kicks off what could be the largest initial public offering ever when it lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange with the ticker SPCX. SpaceX generated $18.67 billion in…

“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…