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white gold-ball-like satellites dot a snowy landscape
Engineering

A powerhouse of global satellite infrastructure: Norway?

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

An artist’s concept of the Gateway space station in a polar orbit around the moon
Moons

Gateway: The 21st-century moonshot mission

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

If autonomous weapons end up in the wrong hands, they can act as weapons of mass destruction, and escalate tensions.
AI

The technology for autonomous weapons exists. What now?

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

WIPP site in New Mexico
Climate Change

Finding a forever home for nuclear waste

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in
Private Space Flight

In the race for space metals, companies hope to cash in

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

The burgeoning science of search and rescue
Environment

The burgeoning science of search and rescue

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

Inside the small world of simulating other worlds
Mars

Inside the small world of simulating other worlds

By Sarah Scoles/Undark

Earth MRI black helicopter with magnetic sensor on an airfield
Environment

The US government is hunting for rare metals out West. That doesn’t fly with some locals.

By Sarah Scoles/Undark