Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are advocating for space data centers to scale AI. The space economy could be a $1.8 trillion opportunity by 2035, according to McKinsey and Company. Critics ...

SpaceX wants to put up to a million data centers in orbit. There are a few technological hurdles standing in the way. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Texas Space Commission announced a $14.2 million grant for Rice University on Tuesday to create a new center for space technologies, marking the final recipient of the $150 million the commission ...

The planned SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) will attract investor attention to other space stocks. It will also put SpaceX in a position to easily beat similar stocks. Investors may respond to ...

Michelle Hanlon is executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law and assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Imagine a network of orbiting satellites equipped with ...

The question is no longer if space governance must evolve, but how quickly it can keep pace with the realities of the new space age. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Space is an increasingly crowded place thanks to the constant influx of new satellites, and it’s only to get more cramped as the cost to reach orbit falls. Those dynamics have brought attention to ...

Four space station fliers undocked and plunged back to Earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday off the Southern California coast six days after NASA ordered them home early ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch ...