Warp drives have long lived in the realm of science fiction, but the underlying physics that inspired them is very real and ...

My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from Earth. My wife, Cristina, walked up just as the first space photo ...

Space travel has always hit a wall with slow speeds and massive fuel needs. Gravitic propulsion systems offer a game-changing ...

A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely, using a Leicester-built ...

On August 21, 2025, a small but powerful space plane will once again head into orbit, carrying with it experiments that could redefine how humans travel through space. The X-37B, a reusable orbital ...

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured a video of Comet 3I/ATLAS zipping through space during its testing phase. Credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / X screenshot A new telescope built ...

If there is a future where people regularly travel through space, what will they eat? Today’s astronaut food, although a novelty for those of us with our feet firmly planted on Earth, is not ...

A new image has revealed the clearest glimpse yet of an interstellar visitor zipping through our solar system.Video above: Astronomers discover how planets formThe Hubble Telescope and its Wide Field ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly. But there ...

Houston, we have a list of great museums. Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space has some of the city's ...