The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is seeking permission to deploy nearly 52,000 satellites capable of handling artificial-intelligence computing into orbit. The company said in a filing Thursday that its ...

Tech giants and their billionaire founders are getting serious about putting artificial intelligence data centers in space. Now, Nvidia is creating a supply chain to serve them. Nvidia will begin ...

We’re working with our partners on a new computer called Vera Ruben Space 1, and it’s going to go out to space and start data centers out in space. Now, of course in space there’s no conduction, there ...

Nvidia (NVDA) announced plans on Monday at its annual GTC event to bring artificial intelligence to space-based data centers. The newly announced Nvidia Space-1 Vera Rubin Module has 25 times more AI ...

Nvidia announced chips that will be used for space missions at the GTC 2026 AI conference. Orbital data centers have been an increasingly popular proposition as AI demand tests Earth's energy ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases – the molecular “letters” of life – have been detected in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. Asteroid particles offer a glimpse into the chemical ...

The merger of xAI and SpaceX, the efforts by some startups, and research by Google have raised the question of when there will be data centers in space. The big advantage of space is the plentiful ...

Starcloud plans to mine Bitcoin from orbit using ASIC hardware, arguing the economics of space computing favor specialized mining chips over GPUs. Starcloud, an Nvidia-backed orbital data center ...

Texas A&M’s $200 million Space Institute is set to open this fall—a move officials say will put Texas at the center of space exploration for at least the next 50 years. The four-story facility, which ...

According to new reports, SpaceX is targeting an initial public offering (IPO) that would value the company at $1.75 trillion -- the highest valuation for an IPO in history. Earlier this year, the ...