headless 曰く、ロスコスモス CEO のドミートリ・ロゴジン氏が自身の発言に釣り見出しを付けたロシア国営メディア RIA ノーボスチを皮肉っている (ロゴジン氏のツイート)。
元々の発言は Gaeta.ru のインタビューで、地球外生命体に関する質問に答えたものだ。ロゴジン氏は異星人文明の存在を信じるに足る事実を把握していないと述べつつ、個人的な見解としては宇宙は無限であり、地球外生命が存在する可能性も無限だと述べている。ただし、地球外生命体が人の形をしている必要はなく、細胞やウイルス、植…
Peter Beck hasn’t been shy about his intention to grow Rocket Lab into more than just a launch provider, but a fully vertically integrated space company that makes spacecraft in addition to sending them to orbit. The company, which he founded in 2006, has taken yet another major stride toward that goal with the news […]
Models of how the Earth could look in 250m years, with huge land masses and longer days, can help exoplanet huntersIt’s unlikely humans will be around to see it, but in about 250m years Earth’s land masses will have moved together to form the next supe…
The ongoing reverberations from the COVID-19 pandemic are continuing to make themselves felt in the most unlikely of places: spaceflight. On Friday, NASA took the unexpected step to ground a September satellite launch due to pandemic-related shortages of liquid oxygen (LOX), and there may be more launch delays yet to come. Demand for oxygen has […]
Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox. We had a few launches this week, including SpaceX’s first one after one of its longer recent pauses in activity. Astra hoped to have its first commercial payload mission go well, but […]
太陽系において生命が発見される可能性の高い場所として期待されている、土星の衛星タイタン。探査機が2027年に打ち上げられる前にタイタンの環境について詳しく知りたいと考えた研究者が、その環境を小さなガラス管の中に再現した。タイタンと同じ温度と圧力の条件で有機化学物質を混ぜ合わせたことで、いったい何が見えてきたのか。
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sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine, written by Adam Mann: Like the Greek god Chronos, a good number of stars devour their children. As many as one-third of them have swallowed one or more of their own planets, a new study suggests. The …
Coral Capital, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today that it has closed its third fund, Coral Capital III, raising $128 million (14 billion yen). Coral Capital’s total assets under management (AUM) is now $275 million. Limited partners in the vehicle include Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi Estate, Shinsei Bank, Pavilion Capital, Founders Fund, Dai-ichi Life Insurance, […]
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You […]
Astra, now a public company, ran into a problem during its first commercial launch (the mission carried a test payload contracted by the U.S. Space Force as part of its Space Test Program) that meant the rocket never made it to orbit. On Saturday, the rocket ignited all its engines at liftoff time on the […]
