Discover how the groundbreaking idea of a space elevator is moving from science fiction to reality as leading innovators in ...

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 ...

Several companies now offer a taste of commercial space travel — if you can stomach the price tag. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic are among the ...

Get ready because the future of traveling to other planets just got a massive upgrade. Pulsar Fusion, a U.K.-based aerospace company, is developing a compact fusion engine called the Dual Direct ...

Blue Origin’s successful launch of a celebrity-studded, all-women spaceflight on April 14 had lots of people seeing stars. Google searches related to space tourism skyrocketed in the days after, and ...

On the Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Are humans on the precipice of not only being visitors to outer space, but also becoming permanent residents? Namrata Goswami, ...

Stem cells sent to the ISS return with signs of accelerated aging, revealing key risks for future space travel.

There’s been plenty of research into how space travel affects the body. While many studies have looked at the effects of low Earth orbit (LEO) spaceflight, some have looked at the negative health ...

Many thanks for the cover story “Live from Mars” [Aug. 20]. As an 11-year-old science geek in the summer of 1976, I thought the world had gone mad with a certain Romanian gymnast named Nadia Comaneci ...

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and other wealthy space moguls have grand plans to make humanity a multi-planetary, interstellar species. But it's easy to have those starry-eyed ambitions when they're mostly ...