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Decades of Stargazing Missed This Planet: NEID Detects 3.6-Earth-Mass World (opens the original)
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A new paper posted this week to the astrophysics preprint server arXiv confirms that astronomers hunting Earth-like worlds have hit a meaningful technical milestone: using NEID, an extreme-precision spectrograph at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, a team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Arvind F. Gupta has confirmed a sub-4-Earth-mass planet orbiting a Sun-like star just 57 light-years (18 parsecs) from here. The planet, designated HD 126053 b, is among the least massive worlds yet confir
Germany Coal Fund Drops Evonik Veto Floor, Opening Path to BASF Takeover (opens the original)
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Germany's RAG Foundation — the coal-legacy fund that has underwritten Evonik Industries AG as its cornerstone asset for nearly two decades — told Reuters on Wednesday that it could sell its entire ~44% stake in the Essen-based specialty chemicals group, removing the self-imposed 25.1% blocking-minority floor that the market had long treated as a structural brake on any hostile bid. The disclosure, made as BASF SE's exploratory takeover interest remains live, transforms the question around a pote
Oura IPO Pulled Hours Before Pricing: More Than Market Jitters Held Investors Back (opens the original)
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Oura, the Finnish smart ring maker behind one of the most closely watched IPO launches of the autumn 2026 season, pulled its $2.1 billion Nasdaq offering on Tuesday — hours before shares were scheduled to price — citing "uncertainty in the IPO market." The company posted 90% revenue growth guidance for fiscal 2026 and 5.7 million paying subscribers, and the order book reportedly ran about four times oversubscribed. So why did one of the year's most anticipated tech listings evaporate at the fini
SpaceX Crew-13 Completes Final Rehearsal, Sets Sights on Thursday Liftoff (opens the original)
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Four astronauts suited up and boarded the Dragon Grace at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday, Sept. 29, completing the dry dress rehearsal that clears the final major pre-launch milestone for an Oct. 1 liftoff aimed at the International Space Station. When Crew-13 lifts off Thursday at 11:10 a.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40, it will carry a set of firsts rare even by the Commercial Crew Program's six-year run — including a commander returning to orbit aboard the exact same spacecr
Boeing Starliner Is Now America's Only Planned Crew Vehicle; Dragon Retiring (opens the original)
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NASA and Boeing will hold a high-stakes joint news conference at Kennedy Space Center at 3 p.m. ET on Monday, September 28, to discuss the future of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner — a spacecraft that has transformed, through two years of grounding and more than $2 billion in accumulated losses, from a redundant crew taxi into something far more consequential: the only planned American vehicle capable of carrying astronauts to low Earth orbit once SpaceX retires Crew Dragon before the end of the deca
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