At first, McDowell highlighted the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as contenders for the farthest ...
When Andy Weir sent astronaut Mark Watney to Mars in The Martian, readers fell in love with a stranded scientist who scienced ...
Aristotle's views on the nature of the cosmos dominated the Ancient Greek world. He argued that there's only one world, at ...
With big names like Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan at the helm, the greatest hard sci-fi films will blow audiences' ...
In a 2019 AP-NORC poll, about half of Americans said they’d take a chance to orbit the Earth, with 41% saying they’d travel ...
In October 1989, a blast from the sun flung out a stream of super-powered protons. This solar storm lasted for days and ...
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak has begun acting a little unusually, but there are likely natural explanations before we go ...
Adapted from a novel by Andy Weir and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, “Project Hail Mary” is marketed as the ...
In Part 2 of my interview with former Area 51 employee Bob Lazar, we discuss the spacecraft he says he worked on in S4, and ...
For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...
The comet has been on our radars since the summer of 2025, when the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...
If the government confirms nonhuman intelligence, psychological research offers clues about the range of ways humans might respond.