Cosmic speed limits can be a major inconvenience but they've rarely stopped science fiction in its tracks.

Space travel is not as easy as it is often portrayed in science fiction movies. The main challenge is the huge distances between objects in space. The scale and size of the distances between stars ...

The conditions in space are hostile to life and travelling in spacecraft is difficult and expensive. So scientists are using different methods to see if there is life on planets other than the Earth.

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT ...

Space exploration would open the door to inhabiting different planets. Space travel provides an insurance policy of sorts. In case the Earth becomes unfit for life, then at least we’ll have a ...

Now, let’s do the math. Since six months on the ISS slows aging by 0.005 seconds, the extra nine months that Suni and Butch ...

With Mach 16, which does 5.4 km per second, a plane would be approaching the 7.9 km per second it takes an object to travel in space. The newly developed oblique detonation engine could fill the ...

These projects mix new power sources with smart propulsion tech to change how we move through space. The math shows we could ...

NASA’s Crew-10 mission will bring back Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams after nine months on the ISS. Their extended stay ...

Singer Katy Perry is scheduled to blast off on the next launch of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket, according to the space company.