JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says "we have no trust in the Americans."

Do you agree?

This is Mars! 140 million miles away from us!

A stunning view of an asteroid burning up in the atmosphere ☄️

What do you think?

Moon with Mercury, Venus and Jupiter

Only Elon Musk would look at a spacecraft and say his next supercar should be able to do the same things 😂

BREAKING: A Russian military satellite has maneuvered to within approximately 5 kilometers (3 miles) of a U.S.-owned commercial spy satellite operated by ICEYE, raising concerns about potential hostile activity in orbit. Russia’s Kosmos 2612 spacecraft approached ICEYE-X36 on October 16, closing from more than 200 miles away to roughly 3 miles, according to satellite-tracking company LeoLabs. ICEYE operates radar-imaging satellites capable of observing Earth’s surface through clouds and darkness, with its intelligence services used by Ukraine’s military. Independent satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell reports that the Russian spacecraft appears to be maintaining its position near ICEYE-X36, although additional tracking is needed to confirm its movements. The approach appears deliberate, according to LeoLabs, but Russia’s intentions remain unknown. No interference or damage to the ICEYE satellite has been confirmed.

From the Moon, Earth appears as a tiny blue gem against the vast darkness of space. One small world holding every life, dream, and story we know. Seeing it from afar reminds us how rare, beautiful, and fragile our home truly is.✨📷

NASA is testing a solar sail spacecraft that uses sunlight for propulsion, without conventional fuel. Launched aboard a Rocket Lab rocket, it demonstrates a new way to travel through space. Future solar sail technology could help spacecraft reach Mars in as little as 26 days.

Now targeting no earlier than Tuesday, October 20 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions → spacex.com/launches/bandwago…

Where would you go? 🌍🌊 The Pacific swallows the Moon. Then a colossal tsunami races across Earth.

THE US MILITARY HAS A WEAPON CALLED HAMMER OF THE GODS, IT TURNS OFF ALL GPS. QUANTUM IS THE SOLUTION. In July the Army, Navy and Space Force took a system called Hammer of the Gods to sea off Southern California for the first time. It’s a low-signature emitter that denies GPS and other positioning signals across an area. Land versions have been running in exercises for two years. This was the first time they launched it, ran it and recovered it from a ship. Why the Pentagon builds a weapon that kills the thing its own forces run on, is to practice fighting without it. Space Forces Pacific’s Lt. Col. Darrin Hall put it plainly, PNT is “the foundation of modern military operations.” Take it away and the precision of long range artillery, guided missiles and cruise munitions falls apart. The US is saying out loud that the weapon which breaks precision warfare is a box that jams a satellite signal. China and Russia have the same box. Russia uses theirs over Ukraine and the Baltic every day. So the race isn’t who can turn GPS off, It’s who can keep navigating when it’s gone and that’s quantum sensing. Atomic clocks that hold time without a satellite. Magnetometers that read Earth’s crust like a map. Accelerometers that track motion with cold atoms instead of drifting gyros. The receipts are stacking up. The Air Force has flown it on a C-17. Q-CTRL published 50x better accuracy than military inertial systems with GPS off. Infleqtion’s clocks are already fielded. And on Friday NIST put the hardest part of a portable atomic clock on a chip, 400 to a wafer, pitched for drones, cars and submarines when GPS is jammed. $INFQ $IONQ $QNT $QBTS

THE US MILITARY HAS A WEAPON CALLED HAMMER OF THE GODS, IT TURNS OFF ALL GPS. QUANTUM IS THE SOLUTION. In July the Army, Navy and Space Force took a system called Hammer of the Gods to sea off Southern California for the first time. It’s a low-signature emitter that denies GPS and other positioning signals across an area. Land versions have been running in exercises for two years. This was the first time they launched it, ran it and recovered it from a ship. Why the Pentagon builds a weapon that kills the thing its own forces run on, is to practice fighting without it. Space Forces Pacific’s Lt. Col. Darrin Hall put it plainly, PNT is “the foundation of modern military operations.” Take it away and the precision of long range artillery, guided missiles and cruise munitions falls apart. The US is saying out loud that the weapon which breaks precision warfare is a box that jams a satellite signal. China and Russia have the same box. Russia uses theirs over Ukraine and the Baltic every day. So the race isn’t who can turn GPS off, It’s who can keep navigating when it’s gone and that’s quantum sensing. Atomic clocks that hold time without a satellite. Magnetometers that read Earth’s crust like a map. Accelerometers that track motion with cold atoms instead of drifting gyros. The receipts are stacking up. The Air Force has flown it on a C-17. Q-CTRL published 50x better accuracy than military inertial systems with GPS off. Infleqtion’s clocks are already fielded. And on Friday NIST put the hardest part of a portable atomic clock on a chip, 400 to a wafer, pitched for drones, cars and submarines when GPS is jammed. $INFQ $IONQ $QNT $QBTS

The West started a war with Iran, and now France is collapsing. The West is learning its lesson.

🚨 BREAKING? Netanyahu warns of Iran’s missile threat to the U.S. 🇺🇸 Do you believe Iran could pose a serious missile threat to America? A) 🔴 Yes, a major threat B) 🟡 Possibly in the future C) 🔵 No, the threat is exaggerated D) ⚪ Need more evidence

Spent some time at @NASAKennedy this past Friday. Really impressed with the progress under @brianhughes and the @NASAArtemis and EGS leadership. By nearly every measure, the team has found efficiencies and improved the stacking process, cutting the schedule by 50%. The machine shops are running around the clock, not just at KSC, but across all the Centers. The rebuilding of core competencies are making NASA builders again and ensuring we have the engineers, technicians, and operators capable of doing the work. I also toured the pad rebuild work at @blueorigin. @JeffBezos and @davill have done an outstanding leading and motivating the workforce. The Blue team has a fire in them like we have never seen before. They are making believers out of many that once doubted the timelines. In all cases, be that in the VAB, helping our partners out at the pad, or working on the landers, suits, and rovers, @NASA is energized. We have our SME's embedded throughout the supply chain, and doing the work to ensure the outcomes you have been patiently waiting for will soon be safely achieved.

🚨: Humans appeared after 13 billion years and still think the universe was made just for them.

What if a high-speed projectile skimmed the Moon at a shallow grazing angle? 🌕📷 This animation follows a fast-moving object streaking low across the cratered lunar highlands, its long shadow racing over the dusty regolith just before impact 📷 With no atmosphere on the Moon, there is no drag to slow a hypervelocity object and no smoke trail or fireball to mark its path, only silent, razor-sharp physics in a vacuum 📷 It's a striking reminder of how differently impacts play out on a world without air 📷

There is a star system close enough that we can test every one of its planets for air, and so far the results are not what the headlines promised. Seven worlds, one very small star TRAPPIST-1 sits about 40 light years away in the constellation Aquarius. It is an ultracool red dwarf, far smaller and dimmer than our Sun, and it has seven rocky planets, each roughly the size of Earth. The whole system is packed tight All seven planets would fit comfortably inside Mercury’s orbit around our Sun. The innermost one, TRAPPIST-1 b, completes a full year in about 36 hours. Several of them sit in or near the habitable zone Some of the planets orbit at the right distance for temperatures that could allow liquid water. That is why the system got so much attention when it was announced in 2017, and why Webb has been pointed at it since 2022. Then the inner planets came back bare A 2026 study in Nature Astronomy tracked planets b and c for about 60 hours, measuring how their temperature changes through a full orbit. The result was no thick atmosphere on either one. Earlier work already ruled out Venus like air, and planet d looks like bare rock with a thin atmosphere at best. The reason is probably the star Red dwarfs throw off violent flares and strong ultraviolet and X ray radiation, which can blow an atmosphere right off a nearby rocky planet over time. Everything now rests on planet e TRAPPIST-1 e sits in the habitable zone and gets less harsh radiation than the inner planets, so it has the best shot at keeping air. Webb’s first four transits of it gave an answer that astronomers described as equally likely to be an atmosphere or none at all. A big problem is that the star’s own surface activity contaminates the signal. More data is coming Extra transits of planet e were scheduled through the end of 2025, and results for planets f, g, and h were expected in 2026. What actually gets me We have a telescope that can read the faint light filtering through the air of a planet 40 light years away, and the most honest summary right now is that we are close to finding out whether a nearby Earth sized world has a sky, and we still are not sure. Do you lean toward planet e having an atmosphere, or does the track record of the inner worlds make you expect bare rock?