The Space Race reshaped far more than spaceflight, accelerating breakthroughs that later moved into homes, workplaces, cars, ...

Technology companies are pursuing projects that would launch data centers into space — efforts called Starcloud at Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Project Suncatcher at Google.

An orbiting fleet of satellites could get around these issues, according to advocates. “There’s not some magic that’s ...

A collection of computers back to the Apple II live in UWM's Retrolab, sparking nostalgia, wonder and amusement.

This two-minute video montage shows highlights of the Apollo 11 moonwalk on July 20, 1969. (NASA Johnson video) July 1969. It ...

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

A research scientist at Lockheed, he came up with the idea for a computer system that would search scientific and technical ...

How Meta, Weka, Vast, and Red Hat are rethinking storage as AI inference outpaces memory supply In the early days of space exploration, storage was a lot humbler than what we use today. The Apollo ...

This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive ...

Landing spacecraft on the moon could contaminate ancient clues about how life may have originated on Earth, a new study finds ...

A month on from the firm's stock market debut, the reality of how SpaceX currently makes money has seemed to come into ...

But in America, distinctively, the answer is clear and singular: We wrote down the rules for you. They are plain. They belong to everyone. The loneliness you feel is not a weakness. It is a call to ...