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Space mining could provide access to vast supplies of metals, water, and rare elements that are increasingly difficult to ...

China has built a machine so extreme that its designers say it can squeeze centuries of geological change into a few days of ...

A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...