China’s multi-element Chang’e-7 lunar spacecraft has arrived at Wenchang spaceport for launch preparations ahead of a planned liftoff in the second half of 2026.

The 40th Space Symposium kicks off in Colorado Springs this month, and the question hanging over every panel, handshake, and hallway conversation is one the space industry has been dodging for years: Can the United States and its allies actually build the workforce needed to sustain the ambitions they keep announcing? The timing makes the […]

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People who forgive quickly aren't naive or conflict-averse — they've calculated the biological, cognitive, and emotional costs of resentment and decided the price is too high to keep paying.

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Registration is open for Industry Space Days 2026 at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, on 16–17 September.

The Artemis II crew is reportedly splashing down today in the Pacific Ocean after spending approximately 10 days in deep space, and the biomedical data they carry home may prove as valuable as any photograph of the lunar far side. For the first time in more than 50 years, human beings have been exposed to […]

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The inability to rest after finishing something enormous often has nothing to do with wanting more. It has everything to do with what the silence contains — accumulated grief, identity questions, and deferred emotional maintenance that achievement kept at bay.

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Kuwait’s accusation that Iran carried out a drone strike against Kuwaiti territory threatens to derail the US-Iran negotiations in Islamabad before they produce any binding agreement. The talks, brokered with Pakistani mediation and aimed at de-escalating the military standoff between Washington and Tehran, now face a concrete test: whether a direct attack on a sovereign […]

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The Pentagon has stopped debating whether commercial satellites belong in its warfighting plans. It is now building strategy around the certainty that they do. A quiet but significant shift is underway inside the U.S. Space Force, one that moves commercial space from a nice-to-have supplement into the core of military planning. The catalyst was Ukraine, […]

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The shrinking social circle after 40 is one of the most misread psychological signals in adult life. Research and lived experience suggest it's not withdrawal — it's the first honest social decision many people have ever made.

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