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Few explorers have reached the heights, literally and figuratively, that Bertrand Piccard has. He is the quintessential modern explorer, for whom every big mission has a purpose, which generally boils ...

Private space company Astrobotic is working on the "first-ever commercial power service for the lunar surface," the LunaGrid.

For decades, scientists have been curious about how much water Mars once had and what led to its gradual transformation into ...

Scientists have discovered massive reserves of naturally occurring hydrogen, with up to 46 billion tons believed to be trapped underground. This “white hydrogen” forms naturally when water reacts with ...

Electric Hydrogen is building 100-megawatt electrolyzers that could produce climate-friendly hydrogen at a lower cost. Large swaths of the global economy are nearly impossible to electrify but could ...

A new type of catalyst—a material that speeds up chemical reactions—that could make the production of clean hydrogen fuel more efficient and long-lasting has been developed by a team led by City ...

Pretty much every day for the last couple of weeks, workers wielding welding guns and torches have climbed onto SpaceX's Starship launch pad in South Texas to make last-minute upgrades ahead of the ...