Calling someone a “computer” has long been shorthand for fast thinking. But while today’s electronic computers would utterly outpace the human “computers” of NASA’s early
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Astronomers are piecing together the origin of the third interstellar object ever detected, the comet 3I/ATLAS, and early evidence suggests it could be a relic
A new object from outside our Solar System has space fans buzzing, and not just because of its speed. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted
The U.S. military’s X-37B spaceplane is scheduled for its eighth mission on August 21, 2025, carrying an experiment that could reshape the future of navigation.
A new americium-based power source could fuel the future of interplanetary exploration. Japan is developing a nuclear battery capable of lasting over a century in