Elon Musk has publicly declared his intent to put data centers in space and power them with solar energy, framing the move as ...

In 1974, the late Princeton University professor and space visionary Gerard O'Neill proposed using electromagnetic rail guns to lob payloads from the moon. O'Neill suggested using "mass drivers" based ...

The Navy’s railgun matters again, but not for the reason that first made it famous. After years of silence, the prototype ...

CASIC has built a 2000 meter long low-vacuum track high-speed maglev test facility in the industrial heartland of Datong, Shanxi province. This is able to accelerate heavy object to speeds approaching ...

In order to give its on-board weaponry a kick in the pants, the U.S. Navy is actively pursuing the development of a new electric-based launcher system—the Electromagnetic Railgun—through two separate ...

Just yesterday, it was explained that Elon Musk has been multiplying announcements about the need to establish a self sufficient city on the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars. But now, his lunar ...