NASA has quietly taken a major step toward crewed missions to Mars by selecting four people to live and work in a sealed, ...

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In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside ...

A Hollywood writer turned ODU professor, Morgan Gendel is now working on an engineering project sponsored by the Air Force.

Musk kept dropping some lines that he is convinced are jokes, and Nikhil responded with the enthusiasm of a man determined to ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

Space is vast, and while the chances of a civilization-ending asteroid impact in any given century are low, the potential consequences are enormous. Humanity’s future survival depends on our ability ...

NASA is stress-testing new Mars exploration tech in Earth's harshest deserts, revealing surprising insights into how future ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...