NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming
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Four things we’d need to put data centers in space
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming
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America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in.
To most people, rocks are just rocks. To geologists, they are much, much more: crystal-filled time capsules with the power
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We’re putting more stuff into space than ever. Here’s what’s up there.
Earth’s a medium-size rock with some water on top, enveloped by gases that keep everything that lives here alive. Just
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The astronaut training tourists to fly in the world’s first commercial space station
For decades, space stations have been largely staffed by professional astronauts and operated by a handful of nations. But that’s
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Southeast Asia seeks its place in space
__________________________Thai Space Expo October 16-18, 2025 ___Bangkok, Thailand It’s a scorching October day in Bangkok and I’m wandering through the
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Inside the archives of the NASA Ames Research Center
At the southern tip of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by the tech giants Google, Apple, and Microsoft, sits the historic
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An Earthling’s guide to planet hunting
The pendant on Rebecca Jensen-Clem’s necklace is only about an inch wide, composed of 36 silver hexagons entwined in a
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Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space
Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, a crack has formed in the middle of a
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