During the Cold War, the U.S. military wanted to demonstrate their power, but sending a nuclear weapon into space had major ...

The Outer Space Treaty, which was signed in 1967, is the basis of international space law. Its regulations set out what ...

Tardigrades have survived conditions that would obliterate virtually every other animal on Earth, and the secret lies in a ...

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don’t enact governing laws in the meantime, space settlers may face legal chaos. Many ...

While AI models are excellent at parsing massive amounts of data, they struggle to pivot when faced with unprecedented events — the kind that frequently occur in the vacuum of outer space. Space ...

World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. World leaders should look to existing ...

The first article of the Outer Space Treaty (1967) guarantees for all states the right of free access to outer space. This principle of states’ free access to outer space is also recognized as a rule ...

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when multiplied by the current ...

Tom Mueller built the rocket engines that gave Elon Musk outer space. Now, the world’s greatest propulsion engineer is racing to create a cosmic courier service. Tom Mueller is driving his candy green ...

Three compute agreements with AI firms may generate roughly $28 billion yearly SpaceX spent about $12.7 billion on AI capital expenditure in 2025 Analysts see orbital computing contributing ...

As artificial intelligence demands unprecedented computational power, computing is expanding beyond Earth into orbit-based data centers and laser-driven communication networks. In this new frontier, ...