When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

A batch of bacteria and viruses launched to the International Space Station returned to Earth with unexpected mutations that ...

Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Explore the challenges of international patent law in regulating innovation amid a permanent human presence in outer space.

Jack Nelson is one researcher out of a “generous handful” of Canadian academics seeking to tame the final frontier.

The curious minds at What If investigate the scenario of the next pandemic coming from outer space, revealing infection risks and extraterrestrial disease threats.

When most people think science fiction, they first think of outer space. It’s why names like Kubrick, Lucas, Cameron, and Scott will live on long after the men who made them famous are gone. For the ...