I honestly can’t recall a recent instance, but as a child of the ’90s, I was very likely to have the occasional run-in with a ...

Two NASA missions called "SPHEREx" and "PUNCH" could share a ride to space this evening (March 11) after multiple delays. The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

Two NASA astronauts are expected to come home this month after being stranded in space since June. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but their ...

Part II.”) Musk appears to have colossally misinterpreted Office Space as a celebration of cruel corporate culture instead of a vicious satire of it. Now Musk is channeling the spirit of the ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

Other companies have similar aspirations. The US space company Axiom Space, best known for organizing short trips to the International Space Station for private astronauts, intends to launch a ...

Crewed space travel isn’t just an engineering feat. It’s a test of the endurance and resilience of the human body. In microgravity, astronauts' bodies undergo dramatic changes: muscles weaken, bones ...

Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, announced the crew for its next mission on Thursday, which can only mean one thing: more random rich people are going to space. The crew most notably ...

The mission will be the first all-woman flight into space in 60 years, Blue Origin said. Blue Origin announced a six-person crew for its New Shepard program’s latest flight on Thursday ...

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With celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King on board, the all-woman crew will fly into space when the New Shepard spacecraft launches from the West Texas desert this spring.