We spoke to a genuine astrophysicist about the accuracy of Star Trek's approach to interstellar travel, the holodeck, and the ...

A team of Texas A&M engineering students are working on a technology called optical propulsion, which could cut travel time ...

If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it ...

What do we gain from space travel? The answer isn’t just out there. It’s all around us. Many of the tools and technologies we take for granted every day can be directly traced to humanity's quest to ...

Ever wonder how much of what you know about space is actually true? Popular culture has fed us a steady diet of space misconceptions for decades, from exploding astronauts to silent vacuums. Let's be ...

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The Artemis II mission, which took humans on a flyby of Earth’s moon, has opened a new front in the cultural debate over space travel. NASA’s ambitious effort to return humans to the moon is sparking ...

Are astronauts aging faster in space? A groundbreaking new study from UC San Diego reveals that human stem cells — specifically the ones responsible for blood and immune system health — may age more ...

Humanity has long looked to the sky and beyond, considering what it would be like to live away from the only life-bearing planet we know about. With the dangers of outer space travel and the lengthy ...