Two disasters almost ended humanity's journey to the stars. A plane crash nearly wiped out NASA's astronaut corps while the Nedelin catastrophe killed Soviet leadership. The days everything almost ...

Kazakhstan’s Dier-5 satellite launch with China highlights a pragmatic pivot toward faster and more reliable space partners. Persistent delays in Russia’s Soyuz-5 rocket threaten the long-standing ...

And that may be part of the allure for Big Tech companies looking to the heavens for their data center solutions. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are working on plans to launch orbital ...

Tech Billionaires Race to Build AI Data Centers in Space Your email has been sent They are putting themselves to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking to build, fund or buy a rocket company to possibly compete in the space race against longtime rival Elon Musk, according to reports. The Wall Street Journal reported ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) --The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military ...

Illustration of Northrop Grumman’s GAS-T platform designed to fuel and extend the life of in-orbit assets. Credit: Northrop Grumman China’s lunar ambitions grab attention, but a quieter milestone that ...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for the last quarter of a century. But it was only this week that all eight of its docking ports were filled at the same time. The ...

As commercial and military interest in space continues to grow, many in Europe are keenly aware of the risk of being left behind. As The Economist went to press, the European Space Agency (ESA) was ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a federal “Genesis mission” to support US dominance in artificial intelligence — with officials comparing it to the Apollo ...

Satellite operators are looking north. Way north. As the US, China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting near the North Pole is ...

BERLIN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Germany will expand its security infrastructure in space to better protect its interests in a sphere where countries are already competing for dominance, said the foreign ...