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NYC alleges ‘bait and switch business practices’ by Extra Space Storage in new lawsuit

no EC AM New York | 2026-02-12, 02:05

Uncontrolled rat infestations, thousands of dollars lost in destroyed items, misleading advertising and unnoticed rate increases are just some of the issues Extra Space Storage renters have dealt with for years, according to a filed Tuesday by the New York

NASA, SpaceX to launch Crew-12 mission to ISS. Meet the astronauts

TCPalm | 2026-02-12, 01:14

Two Americans, a Russian man and a French woman are on the cusp of departing to the International Space Station for a nine-month stay. Selected for a joint NASA and SpaceX mission known as Crew-12, the contingent of international astronauts could head to their

NASA space scientists reveal incredible look at ‘space egg’

no EC The Daily Record - Dunn | 2026-02-12, 01:11

The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in what's called the Egg Nebula. ...

NASA Completes First Flight of Laminar Flow Scaled Wing Design

NASA | 2026-02-12, 00:47

NASA completed the first flight test of a scale-model wing designed to improve laminar flow, reducing NASA home page

SpaceX Makes a Huge Pivot, Wants to Build on the Moon Instead

Universe Today | 2026-02-12, 00:39

The commercial space giant SpaceX, which

SpaceX Is Becoming The Most Valuable Private Company In The World With New Merger

BGR | 2026-02-11, 23:45

Elon Musk is already the world's richest man, but soon he'll own the world's most valuable private company, as the result of a major SpaceX merger. ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Proceeds Toward Launch

NASA | 2026-02-11, 23:35

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission received the "go" to proceed for a launch no earlier than 5:15 a.m. ET, Friday, Feb. 13 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA home page

ICE has leased a downtown Columbia building. Here’s why some leaders are unhappy

The State | 2026-02-11, 23:11

The move, which leaders said they were not informed of by the federal agency, will put ICE officials in downtown Columbia. ...

Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it's not a big deal, CEO says.

Ars Technica | 2026-02-11, 23:08

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand.

Latvian startup builds nuclear waste-powered system to generate electricity on the moon

Interesting Engineering | 2026-02-11, 22:42

Latvian startup Deep Space Energy is developing a compact radioisotope power generator that it says can deliver the same output as legacy space nuclear systems while using five times less fuel. The company has raised €350,000 in pre-seed funding and secured an

What’s the truth about the mysterious ‘alien’ space rock?

no EC The Courier Times | 2026-02-11, 22:16

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial theories. ...

Watch Vulcan Centaur rocket launch 'neighborhood watch' satellites for the US military early on Feb. 12

Space | 2026-02-11, 22:11

A Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch a pair of space surveillance satellites for the U.S. Space Force early Thursday (Feb. 12), and you can watch the action live. ...

ULA Vulcan rocket faces biggest test yet ahead of Space Force launch

The Ledger | 2026-02-11, 21:20

The powerful Vulcan rocket faces its biggest test yet as it prepares to launch on its second national security spaceflight from Florida. This time around, a rocket meant to become the United Launch Alliance's workhorse will be carrying its heaviest-ever

China aces test of next-gen lunar capsule and rocket in effort to land humans on ...

Space | 2026-02-11, 21:17

China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon, acing a key abort test with its Mengzhou crew capsule and pulling off a soft splashdown with the returning rocket. ...

Amendment 47: Corrections to B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research

NASA | 2026-02-11, 21:11

B.2 Heliophysics Foundational Research (HFR) solicits investigations that advance the fundamental physical understanding of the Sun-Heliosphere-Planetary NASA home page

9 Greatest Hidden-Gem Thrillers of the 21st Century, Ranked

Collider | 2026-02-11, 20:46

Since the turn of the century, there have been too many

China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test

Ars Technica | 2026-02-11, 20:43

China's space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the

Hubble Space Telescope captures the stunning final breaths of a dying star

Space | 2026-02-11, 20:23

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star. ...

The radical propulsion needed to catch the solar gravitational lens

Phys Dot Org | 2026-02-11, 20:22

Sending a mission to the solar gravitational lens (SGL) is

Who Will Fly The Next Vomit Comet? NASA Ends The Zero-G Monopoly

Simple Flying | 2026-02-11, 20:18

NASA has begun the process of securing a new aircraft to continue its parabolic flight program,

Florida-launched spacecraft helps make this new find on Venus

Daily Commercial | 2026-02-11, 20:08

A spacecraft that launched from Florida nearly 40 years ago helped discover a vast underground tunnel formed from ancient volcanic activity lurking beneath Venus. Though we've long had evidence that Venus was once a volcanically active world, scientists

Orbital AI Data Centers: The Daunting Economic Reality Behind the Space Compute Dream

Bitcoin World | 2026-02-11, 20:05

San Francisco, CA – October 2025: The vision of massive artificial intelligence data centers floating in orbit has shifted from science fiction to a serious corporate strategy. However, beneath the ambitious announcements from SpaceX, Google, and well-funded

Advancing Single-Photon Sensing Image Sensors to Enable the Search for Life Beyond Earth

NASA | 2026-02-11, 19:59

A NASA-sponsored team is advancing single-photon sensing Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) detector technology that will enable future NASA NASA home page

Making High Fidelity Fluxgate Cores for Space Science and Space Weather Missions

NASA | 2026-02-11, 19:59

A NASA-sponsored team at the University of Iowa (UI) is restoring and advancing the nation’s capability to make high-fidelity magnetic field measurements needed to investigate space weather that can impact our communication and power grids on Earth and our

NASA-funded Compact Radar Drives Big Changes in Airborne and Suborbital Radar Capabilities

NASA | 2026-02-11, 19:58

NASA’s new compact radar spots millimeter-scale Earth changes from the sky—no GPS needed—and could one day map other worlds. NASA home page

U.S.-India Space Business Forum concludes with more than 200 govt. and industry participants

The Hindu | 2026-02-11, 19:37

The forum was the flagship event of the first U.S. Trade Mission to India focused on commercial space ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 deploys 25 Starlink satellites after California launch

Space | 2026-02-11, 19:28

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. ...

Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life's building blocks may be widespread in the universe

Space | 2026-02-11, 19:28

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system. ...