Last week my wife Hope and I traveled to Boca Chica, Texas, to meet with Elon Musk. While we talked inside the SpaceX onsite headquarters, a mariachi band played outside, providing entertainment for ...

The problem is absolutely heat, it’s always heat even down here in the atmosphere, where we dump hot water out of the data centers. There’s no place to conduct the heat to in space, no water source to ...

Space stations are expensive, but can we fix that? Yes, we can! (If this mission goes right.) Do you like space stations? Would you like to see more of them in orbit -- maybe even spend a few nights ...

Rocket Lab began construction of an orbital launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula last week. The site will be home to the first launch of Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle, designed to lift a 150kg ...

Kilometer-scale, ultra-large spacecraft are major strategic aerospace equipment for the future use of space resources and colonization. They will study minimizing the weight of the spacecraft and ...

China sent its first civilian astronaut into orbit on Tuesday, as it launched the Shenzhou-16 mission to its space station for its second in-orbit crew rotation, marking another step forward for the ...

An artist’s conception shows the deployment of hardware that would deploy a set of nanosatellites and then demonstrate a robotic metal-cutting technique for in-space habitat construction. (Nanoracks ...

High orbits that don't go into the Earth's shadow are really expensive, but there is an orbit called a polar sun-synchronous dawn-dusk orbit which stays in sunlight all the time. It goes over the ...

Do you like space stations? Would you like to see more of them in orbit -- maybe even spend a few nights on an orbiting space hotel? So here's the problem with building space stations: They're really ...