NASA is making final preparations for two spacewalks at the International Space Station (ISS). It’s been eight long months ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Built to last, NASA’s Perseverance rover continues its long journey across Mars, collecting samples and revealing the ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

Serious Star Trek fans are familiar with the term nacelles—the long, cylindrical engines that power the Starship ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Warp drive has long lived in the realm of starships and scriptwriters, but the equations behind it are starting to look less ...

Warp drive has long been a narrative shortcut for science fiction, but a new generation of physicists is treating it as a serious, if distant, engineering problem. Instead of asking whether ...

This week, NASA revealed that one of its spacecraft currently in orbit around Mars has inexplicably lost signal due to an "anomaly." ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On one particular Friday night in 1992, Miguel Alcubierre couldn’t stop thinking about Star Trek. Every ...