The big picture: In deep-space travel, the race is no longer about who has the biggest rocket – it's about who can build the smartest plasma engine. As the competition to reach Mars intensifies, ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually on the horizon. Here’s a rundown on the science and economics of getting all that technology into orbit. Last year, investors pumped ...

The future of Greenland has dominated the headlines in recent weeks, but increasingly, the real action, both commercially and militarily, is taking place in space, hundreds, even hundreds of thousands ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Commercial airlines faced a stormy year in 2025, marked by severe weather, flight cancellations, fires, FAA cuts and a government shutdown, as the Wall ...

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For investors in the technology sector, factory automation has long been a standard trade. For years, investors have flocked to companies that build robots to move boxes in warehouses or weld parts on ...

FIRST ON FOX: More than a decade ago, China launched its Belt and Road Initiative, pouring billions into ports, railways and power plants across the developing world to extend Beijing’s economic and ...

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America faces a choice in space: lead or follow. There’s no middle ground anymore. China is methodically executing a plan to dominate the moon and cislunar space. The question isn’t whether someone ...

Dec. 22, 2015, was a milestone in the history of space travel. On the night of Dec. 21 to 22, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral and successfully deployed 11 communications satellites into ...

Sven Bilén founder and co-owner of Victoria Defense, which seeks to commercialize VLEO and other space technologies. He receives funding from DARPA and NASA related to VLEO technologies. Which is why ...

There are about 15,000 satellites orbiting Earth. Most of them, like the International Space Station and the Hubble Telescope, reside in low Earth orbit, or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2 ...