Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may help improve life on Earth.

In a milestone for small satellite technology, the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch Henon, the first CubeSat designed to independently journey into deep space. This compact spacecraft,

Hopkins Bloomberg Center to launch series with top space executives discussing the futuristic technologies fueling the modern space economy

It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar system have profoundly influenced the history of humanity. Beginning in the 14th century,

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) inaugural HII Transfer Vehicle-X (HTV X-1) successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 29 for a Canadian robot arm capture and berthing to the Earth-facing port on the U.S. segment Harmony module.

The Model Rocketry and CANSAT competition in India, supported by IN-SPACe and ISRO, featured over 600 students, with teams launching satellites and model rockets. Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla encouraged participants to pursue space exploration dreams,

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into soul-numbing technobabble. That sad fate is happily avoided by the absorbing Once Upon a Time in Space (BBC Two).

To be clear, the U.S. is still in a better position than any nation on Earth to lead humanity to the ‘Golden Age’ of space exploration. Let’s not let that golden age turn instead into fool’s gold.

Emporia State University will soon be connected to the cosmos. The university announced Tuesday that it would be one of just four schools to receive an opportunity to speak to

Astronomers have recently unlocked a new frontier in exoplanet exploration, generating the first 3D map of a distant world. This groundbreaking study, published inNature Astronomy, takes us beyond the limitations of previous 2D models,