The History of Space Travel in 10 Objects As our shuttles have gone into retirement and we look to the future of what space travel will mean for human exploration, there are plenty of artifacts left ...

J eff Bezos’ Blue Origin has announced the participants on its next space tourist flight, the 37th launch for the New Shepard ...

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side? Willy Ley wrote prolifically about the ...

How does the Endurance from 'Interstellar' compare with these other fictional spacecraft? By Graeme McMillan Interstellar Art - H 2014 But where does the Endurance’s ability to travel through ...

The monumental achievement of sending the first human in space is a cornerstone of the history of space travel. On April 12, 1961, a single man's journey beyond Earth's atmosphere captivated the world ...

The Dawn of a Secular Space Boom The last human moon landing occurred more than 50 years ago when NASA’s Apollo 17 mission touched down on the lunar surface, and U.S. astronauts Eugene Cernan and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. From the streets of Moscow to the stars: Laika, the soviet ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth's ...

Space tourism got a huge lift on Monday with the successful launch of Blue Origin's all-female NS-31 mission that included celebrities like singer Katy Perry and TV personality Gayle King. The first ...

Space tourism is a growing industry offering suborbital, orbital, and potentially lunar flights to non-professional astronauts. The high cost is attributed to advanced technology, manufacturing, labor ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.