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 ...

SpaceX has submitted a daring proposal to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a constellation of up to ...

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

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with ...

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.

A trip to outer space can wreak havoc on the human body. Muscles atrophy, bones become porous and immune systems degrade in low gravity. These effects, as frightening as they may sound, tend to be ...