Space exploration

• Musk confirms SpaceX merger with xAI ahead of IPO - SpaceX will merge with xAI in a deal that consolidates two of Elon Musk's biggest private startups.
• China vows to develop space tourism, explore deep space as it races US - By Laurie Chen BEIJING, Jan 29 (Reuters) - China's main space contractor vowed to develop space tourism in the next five years, state media reported on Thursday, as Beijing revs up its commercial
• NASA's 1st human moon mission in 50 years could be month out. What to know - Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic Apollo era ended.
• Russia plans a nuclear power plant on the moon within a decade - MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as major powers rush ​to explore the earth's only natural