News Sep 23, 2026 Cornell flies pizza-box light sails free of their satellites Student-built sails unfolded from CubeSats, sent radio data from gram-scale computers, and were filmed opening in weightlessness on the space station. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 23, 2026 Katalyst wins a contract to assemble a power-beaming spacecraft in orbit A robotic spacecraft will join solar-power tiles in low Earth orbit and send microwave energy to Earth for remote sites and military use. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Jul 10, 2026 China Successfully Tests Sea-Based Rocket Booster Recovery China successfully recovered its Long March 10B reusable rocket booster, taking a major step toward challenging SpaceX in the commercial space launch race. gizmo guru 2 min read
News Apr 11, 2026 Artemis II astronauts return to Earth after spectacularly successful mission NASA has successfully completed its first crewed flight around the Moon in more than 50 years. The four astronauts splashed down safely after flying by the Moon. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Article Feb 18, 2026 NASA’s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the Moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing Artemis II’s goal is to send people to pass by the Moon and be sure all engineering systems are tested in space before Artemis III, which will land astronauts near the lunar south pole. Republished from The Conversation 6 min read
Article Mar 5, 2026 Major changes in NASA's Artemis program NASA announced a major overhaul of the Artemis program aimed at accelerating America's return to the Moon. Giulio Prisco 6 min read
News Nov 8, 2024 New test flight of Starship scheduled for November 18 The sixth test flight for Elon Musk's rocket Starship is set to happen on November 18, with new tests of subsystems. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Apr 17, 2025 Signs of life on exoplanet K2-18b excite astronomers New telescope data reveals possible biosignatures, hinting at life on a distant ocean-covered world in the habitable zone. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 10, 2026 Deep learning maps methane leaks from orbit A vision model trained on millions of simulated gas trails finds, outlines, and traces methane sources in NASA images from the International Space Station. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Article Feb 22, 2025 Should we still want biological space colonists (Part 2)? Part 2: Should we send human astronauts to colonize space? Or should we build conscious HL-AGI robots first, and then send them? Giulio Prisco 7 min read