Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner atop its Atlas 5 rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the June 5 Crew Flight Test launch. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky In the unforgiving void of space, where errors are ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the military’s secretive Space Rapid Capabilities Office. ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico—For decades, America’s big defense contractors have known they can count on a ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the machine-learning model have at least one Earth-like planet." When you purchase through ...

SpaceX uses 3D printers and a process of relentless refinement to streamline its Raptor engines. In the Raptor 3, plumbing and wiring that had been on the outside were fused into the motor’s metal ...

Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations for the U.S. Space Force, speaks Sept. 17, 2024 at the Air & Space Forces Association's annual Air Space & Cyber conference. Credit: U.S. Space Force ...