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As DFI money dries up, AFC is doubling down on African VC with $100 million

For nearly two decades, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) wrote cheques for bridges, ports, mines, and subsea cables. Now, the $19 billion Africa-focused develop...

Beacon of Light

This latest Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features Messier 77 (M77), a barred spiral galaxy famous and appreciated among...

Showmax is gone. MultiChoice’s future is now premium streaming and payments

This is Follow the Money, our weekly series that unpacks the earnings, business, and scaling strategies of African fintechs, financial institutions, companies,...

Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.

When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the week-long "Aviation Challenge" program at Space Camp, in Huntsville, Alabama. "For the...

The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?

These days, one would be forgiven for forgetting that SpaceX is, at its core, a rocket company. Consider the company's mega deals over the last year. SpaceX pai...

Peluxiv Review 2026: Truth Explained!

Visit Peluxiv Official Website  What if you could relax and invest in profitable crypto, stocks, forex, commodities, futures, and other valuable assets? Th...

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, launched Friday, May 15, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force...

Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO

The world's leading space powers desperately want to know what the others are up to high above the equator. For more than a decade, the US military has operated...

Rocket Report: Cowboy up for data centers in LEO; Russia's new ICBM actually works

Welcome to Edition 8.41 of the Rocket Report! The stories of the world's two most powerful rockets are now intertwined. Hardware for NASA's third Space Launch S...

Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy

Africa has been here before. Oil climbs above $100, import bills balloon, Finance ministers across the continent convene emergency sessions, and somewhere in a...

Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs I...

AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs

The Cameroonian arm of Africa Global Logistics (AGL), the logistics giant that operates port, rail, maritime, and freight services, has partnered with REasy, a...

NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilome...

NASA, Industry Prepare Cryogenic Fuel Technology Demo

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit techno...

Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station!NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left)...

NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, p...

Rise Goes to Washington

NASA/Joel Kowsky “Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch,...

Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)

The first version of NetHack was released in 1987 as a heavily modified descendant of Hack, itself based on Rogue, a Unix-era experiment built for character-bas...

Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI

I got nerd-sniped into the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge and made a questionable decision: I turned my codebase into a roguelike dungeon. It started with a simpl...