Ever since the first astronaut went to space almost 60 years ago, over 500 people have blasted out of Earth’s atmosphere. They lived and worked in space at different times. But nobody has ever been ...

The debate over U.S. missile defense is increasingly focused on space, and defense experts argue that stopping threats in the earliest moments after launch could determine whether the homeland remains ...

Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) addresses the land use and intermittency challenges of terrestrial solar and wind by providing 24/7, baseload, and dispatchable carbon-free electricity from orbit.

With NASA's delayed Artemis II moon mission on hold, SpaceX pressed ahead with a Friday the 13th launch of four fresh crew members to the International Space Station in a mission to replace four ...

WASHINGTON — Wardstone is staking its future on the Pentagon’s appetite for orbital missile defense. The California-based startup, founded by brothers Sebastian and Tobias Fischer, has raised about $5 ...

A British company is developing a space-based “factory” to produce materials for quantum computers, AI data centers and defense infrastructure. Space Forge, located in Cardiff, Wales, has reached a ...

Michelle Hanlon is executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law and assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Imagine a network of orbiting satellites equipped with ...

For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather ...

This cutaway view shows the interior of the Starlab space station’s laboratory. (Starlab Illustration) How do you design a living space where there’s no up or down? That’s one of the challenges facing ...

Elon Musk’s move last week to combine SpaceX and xAI has created one of the world’s biggest and most valuable private companies, which analysts say offers a mix of potential growth and financial risk ...

Terrestrial data centers are so 2025. We're taking our large-scale compute infrastructure into orbit, baby! Or at least, that's what Big Tech is yelling from the rooftops at the moment. It's quite a ...

U.S. companies also plan to build solar-powered data centers in space as the market becomes crowded on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...