Alphabet is increasingly launching ‘moonshot’ projects as independent companies — here’s why

Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

We took a test-drive of NASA's new moon rover candidates

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...