5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (715+ words) Space X sold 555, 555, 555 shares at $135 each. That priced the company near $1. 77 trillion at the open, topping Saudi Aramco's 2019 listing as the largest debut ever. Shares trade under the ticker SPCX. Demand ran far ahead of supply. Orders reached roughly $250 billion,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (401+ words) For many inventors, a major breakthrough becomes the defining milestone of their careers. For Mohsen Bahmani, however, it was only the starting point of a much larger vision. Bahmani's work reflects many of the trends shaping the future of transportation....

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (860+ words) Technology Org Elon Musk has crossed a line no human has touched before. The Space X initial public offering has lifted his fortune past $1 trillion, making the 54-year-old entrepreneur the first trillionaire in recorded history. The rocket, satellite, and AI…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (539+ words) Ukrainian drone engineers took a while to reach a sufficient speed to catch up with the Geran-2. At first, interceptor drones were only targeting slower Russian UAVs (mostly, reconnaissance drones). The Geran-2 can fly at 185 km/h, even though it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (629+ words) Little Red Dot Abell2744-QSO1. Image credit: NIRCam Now, researchers using Webb have detected clear evidence that some supermassive black holes were enormous from the beginning, forming without a stellar collapse phase, and without a significantly more massive host galaxy to feed…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (590+ words) But, until now, no one could find it. The study was published in'The Astrophysical Journal Letters. "Unless a black hole exists in a perfect vacuum, it must blow a wind somehow," said Northwestern's'Mark Gorski, who co-led the study. "And there…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (546+ words) The Copernicus Project started at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2001. In June 2002, a grant from the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) was used to develop the first prototype which was completed in August 2004. In the interim, support…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (245+ words) The focus of this NASA/ESA'Hubble'Space Telescope'image'is an active'spiral galaxy'on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of years. The galaxy Messier 88 (M88), also known as NGC 4501, is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation'Coma Berenices'(Berenice's Hair).' This NASA/ESA…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (236+ words) An artist's impression of a disk of gas and dust formed during the birth of the sun. Credit: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook "We recreated the crystallization of iron meteorites in the lab and used the known chemical composition of iron…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (604+ words) The failure happened Thursday during an engine test fire ahead of New Glenn's launch, which had been set for next week. The timing lands hard on Jeff Bezos. Both Blue Origin and Amazon want to stand as real rivals to…...