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 ...

In the field of space exploration and deployment of satellites, propulsion technology is the key to success to set milestones ever higher. Consider a spaceship that uses nuclear fusion energy, a ...

Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction, captivating imaginations with the possibility of moving through time as easily as we travel through space. However, the question remains: how ...

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 ...

On Monday, Katy Perry embarked on a space tourism mission with Jeff Bezos' company Blue Origin. The 10-minute round trip was criticized by some as unnecessary and self-indulgent. It's the latest in a ...

Katy Perry has broken her silence following the backlash to her historic Blue Origin space mission. The popstar, 40, joined five other women for the first female-only space mission in more than six ...

Launched Christmas, 2021, and named after NASA’s Apollo era administrator, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) is the preeminent instrument of astronomy. It peers deeper into space and reveals more ...

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 ...

Stem cells age faster and become functionally exhausted in low Earth orbit, making crewed long-duration space travel even more challenging. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Kramer covers golf and luxury technology. Apparently many of you are planning on traveling this summer, according to expert ...

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 ...