Space
The billionaire littering crisis: Now Elon Musk and co are fly-tipping in the cosmos
When parts of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon, a new era of celestial capitalism and colonisation began
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Elon Musk joins the Mount Rushmore of Wall Street’s malignant geniuses
Like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford, his brilliance is paired with a callous disregard for human values
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The insane assumption behind the value of Musk’s loss-making SpaceX
Elon Musk is asking people to believe that his company is going to dominate the AI market of the future, which will be worth the entire value of today’s US economy. Sound likely to you?
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How Trump explains Disclosure Day and America’s new UFO boom
Steven Spielberg's new aliens movie arrives at the perfect moment for US conspiracy culture
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The smelliest spaceship in history
The Gemini 7 mission was a reminder that for all the glamour of space flight, it’s important to get the small things right – and that includes the plumbing.
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Making Pluto Great Again
Jared Isaacman’s bid to restore Pluto’s planetary status looks less like science and more like populism in space
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Talking nonsense about Artemis II
There are a lot of stories circulating about the scientific benefits of space travel and of mining the lunar surface. A huge number of them are complete nonsense.
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What was the point of the Artemis moon mission?
It’s clear what the Trump administration wanted – but what did anyone else get out of it?
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Warfare has already moved into space – you just haven’t realised it yet
When Putin invaded Ukraine, his assault began with an attack in space. And now, the Iran war is being overseen and managed by technology orbiting the globe. And this is just the beginning