Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, ...

The accomplishment "paves the way for long-distance and long-duration missions where creating spare parts, construction components, and tools on demand will be essential." When you purchase through ...

Advances in artificial intelligence are driving surging demand for data centers. But these warehouse-like facilities, containing computers that process and store data, require a lot of land and huge ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway. Last week, the Florida-based company Lonestar Data Holdings launched a shoebox-size device carrying data ...