Gen. Stephen Whiting, U.S. Space Command commander, speaks to military officials during a recent forum. Credit: U.S. Space Command ORLANDO, Fla. — The Pentagon for decades has treated launch as the ...

Habitat loss is not the only threat faced by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus; pictured). Around half of captive koalas die from cancers associated with retroviruses — viral invaders that insert their ...

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who famously stayed in space for an extended nine-month visit because of problems with an experimental capsule, has retired after 27 years, NASA said Tuesday. Williams ...

There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe that mysterious stuff that we now call dark matter and dark energy represent a ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird and fire ant. But new research reveals insects are also major victims of ...

Surging demand for energy to power artificial intelligence (AI) data centers is reaching new heights as companies are pursuing plans to station data centers in space. Billionaire entrepreneurs Elon ...

The space station industry is starting to take off. For decades, if you wanted to send an astronaut or experiment into orbit, the International Space Station (ISS) was the only option. But now, as ...

U. S. Space Force guardians conduct training and maintenance with the Counter Communications System (CCS) at Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado, July 2, 2025. (Amber Mullins/U.S. Space Force). As the ...

Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humans required. And on Wednesday the U.K.-based aerospace startup announced that it had taken a major step toward that goal by ...

The International Space Station was painstakingly assembled segment by segment, launched into orbit by many expensive and logistically complex rockets. Now there’s intense interest in a radically ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Arcade Archives 2: Space Invaders Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It is one of the earliest ...

Artificial intelligence increasingly requires so much space and power that we may run out of both on Earth. As a solution, tech companies are looking to do business in space by creating celestial data ...