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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 ...

ESA's Plato spacecraft completes critical testing ahead of its spaceflight.

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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 ...

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, ...

"Decades of rapidly expanding space activity have shown that each launch leaves an environmental footprint, and it can take a long time to understand the impact fully. This is why it is so crucial to ...