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On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

Space is an increasingly crowded place thanks to the constant influx of new satellites, and it’s only to get more cramped as the cost to reach orbit falls. Those dynamics have brought attention to ...

The fourth Jielong-3 lifts off from a converted ship off the coast of Haiyang, Sept. 24 (UTC), 2024. Credit: China Rocket HELSINKI — China’s main space contractor says it will push into new commercial ...

Light is the fastest phenomenon in the universe, clocking in at just under 300,000 kilometers per second. The telescopes that observe that light, from radio waves to gamma rays, are built at rather ...

It is possible to see the station from Earth with the naked eye, appearing as a bright, fast-moving light. The best times to spot the ISS are a few hours before sunrise or after sunset. NASA's "Spot ...

Two of Elon Musk's companies are merging to build data centers in space, according to a post on the SpaceX website. The rocket and satellite company has acquired xAI, Musk's artificial intelligence ...

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. Elon Musk's ...

We are only in the second month of 2026 and multimillion-dollar superyacht sales (both new and pre-loved) keep rolling at dazzling speed. One of the most remarkable recent sales features the ...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A proposed merger between Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI, reported exclusively by Reuters on Thursday, could give fresh momentum to Musk's plan to launch satellite data ...