To work toward getting around this issue, researchers used parabolic flights to simulate microgravity conditions, then 3D ...

Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial ...

Lightweight, adaptable, and packed with nutrients, insects are now being seriously considered as a sustainable food source ...

Greg Miraglia and Jeff Nardinelli of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP discuss the potential and successes of low-orbit ...

Now the barriers are falling. To protect its cargo as it re-enters Earth’s atmosphere, Space Forge engineers have built a folding ceramic heat shield named Pridwen, after the shield of King Arthur, a ...

The conflict between the brain's expectation of Earth's gravity and the reality of no gravity causes space motion sickness.

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

Alien, Event Horizon, and Pandorum are all among the absolute most terrifying sci-fi and horror movies set in space.

People love the idea of ageing slower in space. It sounds like the ultimate sci-fi perk: float around above Earth […] ...

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats ...

China and the US have historically had a strained relationship in space. The US effectively banned China from the International Space Station in 2011, and NASA officials have decried China’s lack of ...