China has insisted that its constellation of satellites in geosynchronous orbit is a peaceful project. It is anything but. China is committed to competing with the United States for dominance in space ...

Orbital data centers could be one solution to the difficulty of building large projects in the United States, amid restrictive laws and often local opposition. After suffering ostracization from his ...

If you watch sci-fi movies, you’d think that flying a spaceship is just like driving a slightly more complicated car (or a Winnebago in Spaceballs). And George Lucas gave us those galactic battles ...

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

It's still summer, but pumpkin spice season keeps getting earlier. National coffee chains like Starbucks and Dunkin' will have their fall menu items out by the end of the month. But when do Reno's ...

General Motors has just unveiled the brand-new Buick Electra Orbit Concept globally, a new design exploration that fuses Buick heritage with futuristic EV technology. The automaker unveiled the Buick ...

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth? It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way likely ...

You might think space as a vast emptiness. But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly crowded – at least around our planet. A European Space Agency report released April 1 ...

Chun Wang, a Chinese-born crypto entrepreneur, paid an undisclosed amount for the mission. Some satellites are already in polar orbit, and researchers called it a routine flight. By Qasim Nauman and ...

Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully produced ...

Getting humans to Mars has long been an obsession for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. On Monday, that project got a full endorsement from the newly sworn-in president. During his inaugural address, President ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.