A Chinese space crew is stranded at the country’s Tiangong space station after tiny pieces of space debris were believed to have struck their return capsule, China’s spaceflight agency said Wednesday.

Last week, news emerged that the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft docked to China’s Tiangong space station had sustained serious damage, likely due to space debris. The capsule was meant to allow a crew of ...

Google describes Project Suncatcher as a "research moonshot to one day scale machine learning in space." Like others, Google sees potential in harnessing the Sun to power a new class of data centers ...

Google is testing a new project that could harness the sun to power data centers in space. Google's own research shows that space-based data centers could avoid draining resources on Earth. SpaceX and ...

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 ...

Google announced Project Suncatcher, a “moonshot” plan to launch AI data centers into space on solar-powered satellites. This aims to harness unlimited clean energy for its TPUs. Despite communication ...