Space & Aerospace

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

Physicists spent years trying to isolate quantum effects by making devices impossibly perfect. Then someone just turned a knob instead.

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 can move through space just fine — but sperm lose all sense of direction in microgravity, flipping upside down with no way to find the egg.

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.

For years, astronomers used telescopes built for black holes to study alien skies. A new instrument designed specifically for exoplanet atmospheres just got its first target date.

The textbook answer was wrong.

The U.S.

NASA wants to land on the moon monthly by early 2027.

Starfish Space has found a new partner for Otter Pup 2, its in-orbit docking demonstration — and the swap, while notable, is not the real news. What matters is the $107 million the company has accumulated from two U.S.

Wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells lose up to 60 percent of their performance in the first few minutes of thermal cycling — a figure researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now pinned down precisely, and think they can fix with a molecular anchor.