I'm playing it in bed. I'm accidentally missing meetings. I'm squeezing a round before social occasions, in the bathroom, and God help me, right after I wake up. My girlfriend has informed me that she ...

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 ...

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"Understanding how different materials behave as they burn up could help engineers design satellites that fully disintegrate, leaving nothing behind in orbit or in the atmosphere." When you purchase ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

It comes as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country will do everything to secure peace and justice.

Transcelestial has developed space-to-ground optical communications terminals for spacecraft, such as this one for the 6GStarLab spacecraft. Credit: Transcelestial WASHINGTON — Transcelestial, a ...

Over the last few weeks, I created a computer game set in the Arctic. Or maybe I've been working on it since 1981. It all depends on how you count. All I know for sure is that I programmed the ...

SpaceX argues that the next-generation satellite network will beat ground-based data centers on cost and energy efficiency. A key challenge facing orbiting data centers is the lack of air to cool a ...