Some have floated the question of whether outer space could help solve AI's energy demands.
A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before orbital congestion and lunar competition escalate.
Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.
After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...
When most people hear the phrase "space warfare," they imagine science fiction battles, not real-world military strategy. But in today’s world, outer space has become a great frontier of geopolitical ...
Ask ten experts where space begins and you might get ten different answers. The atmosphere doesn’t end like a wall—it thins out gradually, so any “edge” is partly a human decision. That decision ...
As global tensions rise, the island has become a geopolitical pressure gauge, revealing how the old international legal order is beginning to fray.
The idea of waging war in orbit is no longer a figment of science fiction. As satellite technologies and launch capabilities ...