If executed at the scale, Musk's orbital data center plan could have devastating effects on the environment and the ...

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Researchers used a pair of powerful supercomputers to simulate the potential trajectories of 1 million satellites in a ...

We’ve learned that Earth-sized planets aren’t alone out there. Thanks to missions like NASA’s Kepler and TESS telescopes, we’ve spotted dozens of rocky worlds ...

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According to NASA, auroras are produced when charged particles from the Sun collide with Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere.

SpaceX and xAI want to lift entire data centres off Earth and into orbit, doing it easier fantasised than done, writes Satyen K. Those born before the Internet era think that “data in the cloud” ...

A 36-mile-long starship designed to carry 1,000 humans on a one-way trip to the nearest known exoplanet has won a major interstellar design competition, raising hard questions about what it would ...

The next solar eclipse will be on Feb. 17, 2026. Here's what you need to know.

Plans for several new military telescopes atop the mountain are drawing strong opposition. But protests over other Maui ...

NASA may wind up renting space at the SpaceX lunar city for its explorers and scientists at less cost than if it built one ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...