As space missions grow longer and bolder, scientists warn that human reproduction beyond Earth is no longer hypothetical, ...

Elon Musk predicts a dramatic shift in how and where AI computing will be hosted not on Earth, but in orbit. The SpaceX and xAI boss says space could soon become the most cost-effective home for ...

Human civilisation stands at a pivot point where the most powerful technology ever created may soon outgrow Earth's capacity ...

Earth today feels morally congested, too much power concentrated in too few hands, too many transgressions hidden behind ...

The traditional habitable zone is shown by the diagonal orange stripe. Its distance from the host star (horizontal axis, in Astronomical Units) increases with luminosity, which increases with the mass ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet should be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water. A new study argues that ...

Every new space mission runs into the same wall: physics and fragility. Physics, because the speed of light and contested spectrum make real-time decision-making from the ground impossible when you ...

The curious minds at What If investigate whether Kepler-69c could be the key to life beyond Earth, exploring habitability and ...