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A Houston man has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for trading on inside information from his wife's business conversations while both were working from home

By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette

Houston-based company has landed America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, part of a new fleet of NASA-funded, uncrewed commercial robots intended to pave the way for astronaut missions later this decade. But while flight controllers confirmed they had received a faint signal, it was not immediately clear whether Odysseus, the lander built by Intuitive Machines, was fully functional, with announcers on a live stream suggesting it may have come down off-kilter. The hexagon-shaped vessel touched down near the lunar south pole at 2323 GMT, having slowed from 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) per hour.

rival company’s lander missed the moon last month. The newest lander, named Odysseus, reached the moon Wednesday, six days after rocketing from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lander maneuvered into a low lunar orbit in preparation for an early evening touchdown.

By Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette

A private lunar lander is circling the moon while aiming for a touchdown near the south pole

For the millions of workers who find going into the office stinks, some real-estate executives say they have a remedy: Make the office smell better. Hines, a commercial landlord with skyscrapers worldwide, has developed a special scent it began quietly pumping into the heating, air conditioning and ventilation system in its Texas Tower headquarters in Houston late last year. It’s rolling out the fragrance in more than 20 other office buildings and apartment complexes this year, from Chicago and New York to London and Delhi, India.

A Houston-based company is set Thursday to attempt to land America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, as part of a new fleet of NASA-funded commercial landers intended to pave the way for astronauts to return to Earth's celestial neighbor later this decade. If all goes well, Intuitive Machines will guide its hexagon-shaped robot Odysseus to a gentle touchdown near the lunar south pole at 2230 GMT.

A private U.S. lunar lander is in orbit around the moon, a day before it will attempt to land on the surface

By Steve Gorman

‘Gen AI will not lead to hiring decline’ Earlier this month on February 15, Houston-based aerospace company, Intuitive Machines, successfully launched its moon lander, the Nova-C lander named Odysseus, from Florida. The mission marked the first US lunar touchdown in over half a century and the initial one by a privately owned spacecraft, Reuters reported.

CAZ Investments, a family office based in Houston, is expanding its reach into the private markets with a substantial commitment to an emerging private equity strategy.

By Greg Roumeliotis

Mars surface mission which will help inform NASA's plans for human exploration of the Red Planet, the space agency said on its website. In spring 2025, CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), the second of three planned ground-based missions, is expected to launch.

moon lander built by Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines was launched from Florida early on Thursday on a mission to conduct the first U.S. lunar touchdown in more than a half-century and the first by a privately owned spacecraft. The company's Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, lifted off shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) atop a Falcon 9 rocket flown by Elon Musk' SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

Congress on Wednesday accused the central government of giving tax benefits to a few chosen big corporate conglomerates and doing «anyay» (injustice) to the poor and common people of the country. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the money generated from personal income tax is higher than corporate tax and alleged this is a direct result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving corporate tax cut to his chosen friends while the poor are reeling under the onslaught of price rise and high taxes. «For the first time in over three decades (excluding the 2020-21 pandemic), the Union government is generating more money from personal income tax (Rs 10 lakh crore) than it is from corporate tax (Rs 9 lakh crore). »This is the direct result of PM Modi giving his close friends a Rs 1.84 lakh crore handout in the form of the September 2019 corporate tax cut just before he left for Houston's Howdy Modi event to boost Trump's re-election campaign," he said in a post on X.

By Dave Sherwood and Marianna Parraga

By Valentine Hilaire

Tornado warning for southeastern Texas, encompassing areas like Houston. The watch indicates the potential for a couple of tornadoes, along with the risk of large hail and destructive winds, as per a Fox report. Severe thunderstorms are forecasted to occur from southeastern Texas to parts of the lower Mississippi Valley and central Gulf Coast states on Sunday. These storms bring the possibility of large hail, damaging wind gusts, and tornadoes as potential threats, the report says.

Astronauts from Turkiye, Italy and Sweden returned to Earth on Friday, ending a private three-week mission to the International Space Station. The trio were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the chartered flight. The crew returned in a SpaceX capsule that parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Turkiye celebrated Alper Gezeravci's launch from Cape Canaveral last month. A former fighter pilot and captain for Turkish Airlines, he became the first person from his country to fly in space.

A woman living in rural Nova Scotia says she’s been stranded for days after a record-breaking amount of snowfall covered most of the province last weekend.