Could satellite-beaming planes and airships make SpaceX’s Starlink obsolete?

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New Mexico-based company Sceye is developing airships that will beam satellite connectivity to customers from the stratosphere. (Image credit: Sceye) A new generation of stratospheric balloons and high-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) could soon connect the world’s unconnected with high-speed internet at a fraction of the prices commanded by operators of satellite megaconstellations such asContinue Reading

Satellite sees Antarctic ice shrink to 3rd-lowest max ever | Space photo of the day for Nov. 24, 2025

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This image by NASA’s Earth Observatory shows clear shrinkage in Antarctic sea ice. (Image credit: Michala Garrison, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.) Antarctic sea ice reached its seasonal winter maximum on Sept. 17, 2025, but even at its greatest extent of the year, coverage remained strikingly low by historical standards.Continue Reading

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia plans to ban social media accounts for people under 16 starting in 2026, joining Australia and a growing number of countries pushing tighter digital age limits for children. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said Sunday the Cabinet approved the move as part of a broaderContinue Reading

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Now that streaming subscriber growth has slowed, we’ve noted repeatedly how the streaming TV sector is falling into all of the bad habits that ultimately doomed traditional cable TV. That has involved chasing pointless “growth for growth’s sake” megamergers, imposing bottomless price hikes and new annoying restrictions on customers, undermining labor, and cuttingContinue Reading

SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on its 150th Falcon 9 mission of the year (video)

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SpaceX reached another milestone with the launch of 29 more Starlink satellites for its broadband internet low Earth orbit constellation. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifts off from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) The Falcon 9’s firstContinue Reading

Our Solar System is racing through space 3x faster than we thought

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How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University has now found new answers, ones that challenge the established standard model of cosmology. The study’sContinue Reading