A movement to shrink the average work week from five days to four has been growing in popularity across the Western world. The U.K. just launched the world’s biggest test yet of the four-day work week to evaluate whether such a move is viable. The six-month pilot program, which started Monday, spans 70 companies — from…

Elon Musk will buy Twitter in a cash deal valued at $44 billion, the social media company announced Monday afternoon. Twitter shareholders will be paid $54.20 per share when the transaction closes, which represents Musk’s “best and final offer” made less than two weeks ago. “Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company,” Musk…

SpaceX launched its first private charter flight to the International Space Station on Friday. The four-man team blasted off on Friday for more than a week’s stay as NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination. If all goes as planned, the three rich businessmen and their escort, retired NASA…

Elon Musk now has a seat at Twitter’s table. The company announced Tuesday it will appoint the world’s richest man to its board, one day after the world learned Musk bought 9.2% of the social media company. The stock purchase makes Musk, who’s often critical of Twitter, the company’s largest shareholder. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal…

After setting a record for the longest spaceflight by an American, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei landed in a remote part of Kazakhstan. The 355-day flight, which began April 9, 2021, beat the previous record of 340 days set by Scott Kelly back in 2016. “Beautiful out here,” Vande Hei remarked about what appeared to…

Tesla finally cut the ribbon on its Germany-based gigafactory Tuesday, presenting 30 customers with the first European-made Teslas in the world. With Giga Berlin officially a go, Tesla hopes to better flood the European market, which has so far been supplied by factories in the U.S. and China (where COVID-19 continues to disrupt its Shanghai…

The moon is about to get hit by a giant piece of space junk. The impact, expected on March 4, will carve out a crater that could fit several tractor trailers. A rocket booster was initially identified by an independent researcher as a used Falcon rocket stage from Elon Musk‘s SpaceX, but last month the U.S.…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is considered one of the most influential people globally, but those titles do not come without criticism. At age 50, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO continues to shake up the auto industry and expand the possibilities of space travel.  In 2021, Tesla reported record growth in each quarter as…

An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is zipping through space and will make a “near-Earth” approach this weekend. Experts say the giant space rock, which is about 1,082 feet wide, will not pose a threat to our planet because it will remain about 2.4 million miles away during its closest approach on Dec.…

Just two days after NASA and SpaceX welcomed four astronauts back to Earth, four more astronauts were launched into space via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday night. According to a news release from NASA, the rocket lifted off at 9:03 p.m. EST. The astronauts were expected to dock at the International Space Station at…