Energy

The standard model for gamma-ray bursts just got complicated.

A 100-kilowatt rack that fits in a small room needs 120 square meters of radiator to operate in orbit. The ISS, all 420 tonnes of it, produces less than 100 kilowatts average.

Four astronauts are supposed to orbit the Moon in March. Scientists with a validated prediction say wait until 2026. Who's right?

17 months. That's how fast Starcloud went from Y Combinator demo day to $1.1 billion valuation — the fastest ever.

The astronauts trained for a moon flyby. They didn't expect to become science experiments — and carry the results home in their own veins.

Europe learned the hard way: you can subsidize a factory, but you can't subsidize a customer.

The space industry just discovered it's competing with ChatGPT for electrical gear. And right now, the chatbots are winning.

ASML unveiled a 1 kilowatt EUV light source in February 2026. It could deliver 50% more chips by 2030 without building a single new machine.

They lit a fusion reaction in a rocket engine at Jeff Bezos's MARS Conference, then... did nothing with it. That's actually a huge deal.

While the industry races to build nuclear reactors and wind farms, one startup thinks the AI power crisis can be solved inside the chips themselves.

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