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Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services

"Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions."

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

Random rewards enrich classic game-theory insights

Simple games gain rich strategies in the face of noise.

Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or

Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

The strain lurking in the inflatable structure was hypervirulent.

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge

The Department of Energy declared an "emergency" when none existed.

Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11

Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis

Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destro

Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion

A quantitative framework for ultrafast ptychography through digital twin control of extreme-ultraviolet beams

Polariton spectroscopy at the diamond K-edge via X-ray parametric down-conversion

Rocket Lab protests NASA's decision to award Blue Origin $700 million Mars orbiter contract

Rocket Lab has filed a protest against NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a $700 million

I've chased the 'false dawn' for years — this is the week to find and photograph it

September's new moon opens a dark window for seeing zodiacal light, the ghostly cone of in

A star is exploding 45 million light-years away — here's how you can see it

The newly discovered Type Ia supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 offers amateur astronomers

Help Refine Data from Space Telescopes with Artifact InSPECtor

How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are

Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite to orbit for secret customer (photo)

Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observation satellite to orbit for a confidential customer on

Stream every single Star Trek show from anywhere, and save up to 75% with this VPN deal

NordVPN is recommended as one of the best VPN services, offering online security and conve

NASA’s Chandra Spots Galactic Gem

Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system. This and several other images

The sun may once have swallowed a super-Earth planet and could still be hiding the evidence

The sun may have swallowed a super-Earth planet in its early history, and our star may sti

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 to Discuss Station Mission, Upcoming Return

Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m. EDT, Wed

60 years of Star Trek uniforms: Looking back at the everchanging wardrobe of Starfleet

Federation fashions have gone through many evolutions over the last six decades, from past

SpaceXAI data centre may have led to Mississippi air pollution spike

Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from tra

Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction

Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North Am

AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to mathematics

Mathematicians now have a formidable tool for breaking open challenging problems, but working out how best to use it isn

How to build powerful microhabits for your wellbeing – and keep them

Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David Robson

Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century

Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by 20

We may finally know what kick-starts muscle contractions in childbirth

An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny tubes

Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one

A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but o

Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping

A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is exquisi

Here is how to understand OpenAI’s major mathematical breakthrough

Since OpenAI announced its solution to one of the prestigious Millennium Prize Problems, mathematicians have been urgent

The world’s biggest carbon sink may start emitting CO2 after net zero

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it abs