True Anomaly, the defense space startup founded in 2022, has closed a $650 million Series D funding round that values the company at $2.2 billion. The financing arrives the same week the company was named one of 12 contractors selected to develop space-based interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense program. The round was […]

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There is a version of getting older that looks like shrinking. The world gets smaller. The social calendar thins out. The hunger to keep up, to accumulate, to measure yourself against other people, gradually loses its grip. From the outside, especially to younger people, this can look like defeat. Like giving up. From the inside, […]

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The drawer of childhood report cards isn't sentimentality. It's an archive of a self that existed before performance metrics replaced personhood — and the psychology of why adults keep evidence they never look at.

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Pluto’s most powerful new advocate is now the head of NASA. On Tuesday, April 28, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations to discuss the agency’s fiscal 2027 budget request. Most of the hearing covered the usual ground: Artemis II’s recent success, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch timeline, […]

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The top 80% of the core stage for NASA’s next Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 27, 2026, locking in hardware for an Artemis 3 mission that has now slipped from mid-2027 to late 2027 and shed its original ambition of putting boots on the moon. The 212-foot-tall stage rolled […]

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Adults who spend hours mentally replaying conversations aren't being neurotic. They're running a security audit they were trained to run as children, scanning their own words for the sentences that might be used against them later. Here's what's actually happening, and how the pattern shifts.

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I have a friend who has not posted on social media in four years. Not a dramatic exit with an announcement. Not a digital detox that ended after two weeks. He just quietly stopped, and when people ask him about it he says something like, I realized I was editing my weekends before I was […]

The post Psychology says the people who never post on social media aren’t antisocial, secretive, or behind the times, they’re the ones who quietly noticed that performing their life cost them the ability to actually live in it, and decided their Tuesday evenings were worth more than anyone scrolling needed them to be appeared first on Space Daily.

There's a particular kind of older person you start to notice once you've been around enough of them...

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The marriages most likely to quietly end aren't the loud ones — they're the ones where two people stopped reaching for each other and decided to call the silence maturity.

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