For a century, spaceflight meant launching finished hardware from Earth. That model is giving way to something more powerful: manufacturing, assembling, and repairing complex structures in orbit and beyond. Orbital construction blends robotics, autonomous control, materials science, and systems engineering to create assets too large, too delicate, or too modular to survive launch in one piece. It’s how we’ll build next‑gen telescopes, kilometer‑scale solar arrays, and habitat

If life can thrive in Earth’s harshest corners, perhaps it can survive on alien worlds too. Astrobiology explores that possibility by treating our planet’s extremes—boiling vents, acidic lakes, subglacial oceans—as natural laboratories. The goal isn’t to prove that life exists elsewhere, but to map the boundaries of the possible: temperature, pressure, radiation, pH, salinity, and energy sources that cells can tolerate. Each discovery on Earth widens the search window for Mar