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The European Union—the continent’s tireless factory of directives, white papers, and late-night trilogues—has fixed its gaze on a new frontier. After decades spent perfecting everything from agricultural subsidies to appliance labels, Brussels now plans to regulate the heavens. With the proposed EU Space Act of June 2025, the bloc intends to pull satellite operators into…

In the sweltering world of AI, where Nvidia GPUs chug through quadrillions of calculations like overcaffeinated squirrels on steroids, cooling has become the ultimate buzzkill. Picture this: massive server farms guzzling enough electricity to power small nations, all while battling heat that could melt polar ice caps—if they weren’t already busy elsewhere. Data centers, the…

Picture this: You’re an astronaut, floating serenely in low Earth orbit, sipping your freeze-dried coffee and pondering the meaning of life among the stars. Suddenly—wham!—a rogue fleck of 1960s satellite paint, hurtling at 17,000 miles per hour, decides your helmet makes a fine target. Or maybe it’s your unmanned probe, dutifully beaming selfies of Mars…

Buzz Aldrin’s “New Moon” Turns Out to Be Earth’s Tiny Celestial Tagalong When Buzz Aldrin — yes, that Buzz Aldrin — took to X to declare that Earth had an official new moon, space enthusiasts perked up worldwide. After all, when one of humanity’s original moonwalkers speaks, you tend to assume he knows his moons.…
