Ever wonder how much of what you know about space is actually true? Popular culture has fed us a steady diet of space ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of ...

A new study published this month has issued an urgent call for future endeavors in space exploration to take nuclear space travel seriously. Similar to a previous study which called for scientists to ...

Long-term space travel to Mars could be bad for astronauts' hearts, a new zero-gravity study shows. After a month at the International Space Station, a set of 48 bioengineered human heart tissue ...

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New studies show that space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit. Samples taken from test subjects in space showed wide-ranging shifts in cells and ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

Editor’s note (August 28th 2024): The mission was postponed a few hours before it was due to launch due to worries about bad weather. ENTHUSIASTS HAVE been paying to fly into space for more than two ...

Scientists investigate psychological responses to long-term experiences of lack of natural light, spatial confinement, ambient noise, living and working with the same small group of people, and mental ...

The first wheelchair user has blasted past the Kármán Line. Michi Benthaus traveled into space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-37 mission.