As someone who has lived and breathed the experience of navigating a world not always designed for me, the thought of space travel has always felt like a dream—a place where wheelchairs and paralysis ...

Blue Origin’s successful launch of a celebrity-studded, all-women spaceflight on April 14 had lots of people seeing stars. Google searches related to space tourism skyrocketed in the days after, and ...

When scientists first sent microscopic worms into orbit in 2018, they hoped to answer a question that has shaped every ...

Limitless Space Institute compares the travel time of spacecraft propelled by nuclear power to that of imaginative fusion ...

Long-duration space travel may cause eye and brain changes that affect astronauts’ vision. Scientists refer to this condition as spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS). Researchers ...

Think you have a rough travel story? Millions of Americans do this summer. But it’s difficult to top, and I mean the word in all ways, the predicament of Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” ...

Discover how the groundbreaking idea of a space elevator is moving from science fiction to reality as leading innovators in ...

Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks. When it comes to space travel, Albert Einstein's theory of relativity is a major ...

The number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has ballooned in recent years, and the story is the same as in all popular destinations: traffic is a nightmare. Things have become so congested that ...

The European Space Agency has announced a significant budget increase for the next three years, reaching nearly $26 billion.

It somehow seemed appropriate that SpaceShipOne took off from an airstrip in the Mojave desert just a few miles from Edwards Air Force Base. For it was at Edwards that a postwar generation of test ...