While AI models are excellent at parsing massive amounts of data, they struggle to pivot when faced with unprecedented events — the kind that frequently occur in the vacuum of outer space. Space ...

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The Outer Space Treaty, which was signed in 1967, is the basis of international space law. Its regulations set out what ...

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As the UK wraps up its year as the chair of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Co-ordination Committee, KATE ARKLESS GRAY asks how close are we to making space inaccessible?

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World leaders should look to existing international law on the use of force to address the threat of space becoming ever more militarized, a new study shows. World leaders should look to existing ...

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 ...

Three compute agreements with AI firms may generate roughly $28 billion yearly SpaceX spent about $12.7 billion on AI capital expenditure in 2025 Analysts see orbital computing contributing ...

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, ...