If SpaceX is going to fly Starships as often as it wants to, it's going to take more than rockets and launch pads. First, there's the sprawling factory that SpaceX has constructed at its Starbase ...

Picture this: a lad in a rural village in southern Egypt, carrying heavy buckets of water from a well, as clean water didn’t exist at home. A few decades later, that same boy is now me, walking ...

The most abundant metal known to man is iron. It's everywhere. Not just on Earth, but in space as well. Astro engineers have just figured out how to use iron – or nearly any metal for that matter – as ...

Humans have achieved groundbreaking feats in space exploration, reaching distant stretches of space with missions like Voyager 1. However, none of this would have been possible without rockets.

For the first time, Chinese astronauts have reportedly demonstrated artificial photosynthesis technology in orbit. They have successfully conducted experiments that mimic photosynthesis, converting ...

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Internet ad networks are hot. Data science is hot. Therefore, Rocket Fuel, the company that combines ad networks and data science, can go public. And on Friday it filed to go public with one of the ...

WASHINGTON – NASA plans to make oxygen – a key ingredient of rocket fuel – on Mars early next decade. Space agency officials Thursday unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover ...