George Lucas hasn't been directly involved in Star Wars for more than a decade, but many of the people who helped build the franchise with him are still working at Lucasfilm. So w ...

“Open Space,” by David Ariosto, suggests there are few limits on human ingenuity that could prevent us from colonizing the cosmos. By Adam Becker Adam Becker is the author, most recently, of “More ...

A science breakdown exploring whether spacecraft can keep speeding up endlessly and what physics actually limits their acceleration in space. Tennessee set to execute woman for first time in over 200 ...

Rice University is boosting its space research after securing $22.3 million from two agreements. The Texas Space Commission approved a $14.2 million grant in February to create the Center for Space ...

In 2025, China set a national record for orbital launches in a single year with over 90 launches. Chinese investment in its commercial space sector, including from private and government sources, ...

For decades, space has served as humanity’s most demanding testing laboratory, where only the most resilient technologies survive the vacuum, radiation and temperature extremes beyond Earth’s ...

As space companies itch to push the most advanced chips into orbit, the problem of cooling those high-powered processors is top of mind. “It’s cold in space … [but] there’s no airflow, and so the only ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of data centers in space being a viable option in the next few years as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pursues their deployment. "I honestly think the idea with the ...

For anyone who spent hours of their childhood trying to recreate an X-Wing from random - and often mismatched - Lego pieces, there is a game you should really be keeping an eye on. Star Wrath ...

El Segundo-based space technology startup Northwood Space announced it has secured $100 million in its Series B funding round. The funding will support advanced space missions that move from launch to ...