Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Astronomy is generating data faster than any single research team can process it, and the instruments responsible are only getting larger. Surveys now routinely produce catalogs measured in billions ...

Baiju Bhatt, billionaire cofounder of retail brokerage Robinhood, started his company Aetherflux in 2024 to use solar panels in space to collect sunlight and beam that energy back down to Earth to use ...

There has been much discussion in the space community recently about building large data centers in orbit to avoid the environmental consequences of sprawling computing facilities on Earth. These ...

Houston has been tied to human spaceflight for decades. Now, the city’s companies are chasing something that’s less romantic but more lucrative: harnessing the flood of data collected in space.

NASA and its dozens of missions gather hundreds of terabytes of data every hour. Data pour in every day like rushing rivers. Spacecraft monitor everything from our home planet to faraway galaxies, ...

Galactic Exchange, Inc. officially came out of stealth mode this week to announce initial beta availability of ClusterGX™, an open source clustering solution which provides unprecedented simplicity of ...