SpaceX's Q2 filing shows AI absorbed 86% of capital expenditure, while chip and memory supply are emerging as the physical limits on its compute build-out.
SpaceX's 2026 S-1 shows that Starlink-driven connectivity supplied 61% of 2025 revenue and the company's only positive segment operating result.
The routinization of spaceflight is reshaping what's possible in orbit—and challenging our intuitions about technological breakthroughs.
A historic milestone collided with the mundane reality of spacewalking: six hours is never quite enough when old wiring fights back.
As rural South Korea emptied of young people, schools found an unexpected solution: grandmothers became first-graders, reclaiming classrooms and literacy in their seventies and eighties.
A forthcoming NASA telescope could revolutionize our understanding of rogue planets—if astronomers can catch their fleeting shadows before they vanish.
The same Martian rock transforms into four different things before scientists can even study it.
The gap between Mars architecture and Mars landing isn't a technical problem—it's a bureaucratic one, and it explains why NASA still won't name a year.
The Red Planet's carbon dioxide cycles through fleeting transformations—frozen snow at the poles, ephemeral frost that vanishes with dawn, and daytime sublimation that skips the liquid phase entirely.
The real climate threat from a million AI satellites may not be their heat, but the cumulative impact of launching and destroying them.
A striking statistic about light pollution obscuring the Milky Way rests on a single 2016 study—and replacing it proves far more complicated than simply looking up.
The Red Planet's doomed moon will eventually shatter into dust, briefly encircling Mars with a spectacular ring system before vanishing forever.
The moment you climb past 19 kilometres, your body becomes a physics problem—and a simple oxygen mask stops being enough to keep you alive.
A joke masked genuine peril: floating untethered in the void with only a jetpack between him and the infinite dark.
America's first space station spent six years in orbit before its dramatic demise scattered wreckage across Western Australia—where pieces became museum pieces, souvenirs, and something far more practical.
A machine built when the Beatles had just broken up still explores the cosmos—and NASA engineers still debug it the old-fashioned way.
