The Kardashev Scale measures a civilization’s energy use. Comparing Earth to alien civilizations shows how far we still have ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

Elon Musk isn't the first person to propose the use of mass drivers on the moon. He's following in the footsteps of space ...

SpaceX and xAI want to lift entire data centres off Earth and into orbit, doing it easier fantasised than done, writes Satyen K. Those born before the Internet era think that “data in the cloud” ...

After outlining plans to build AI data centers in orbit, which he described as the primary link between xAI and SpaceX, Musk extended the idea to larger systems in deep space. He said that going ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events.

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...

On January 30 2026, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for a megaconstellation of up to one million satellites to power data centres in space. The proposal ...