A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the ...

Ever wonder how much of what you know about space is actually true? Popular culture has fed us a steady diet of space ...

As someone who has lived and breathed the experience of navigating a world not always designed for me, the thought of space travel has always felt like a dream—a place where wheelchairs and paralysis ...

The first wheelchair user has blasted past the Kármán Line. Michi Benthaus traveled into space aboard Blue Origin’s NS-37 mission.

Dreams of space travel often start with rockets and starry views, not dental chairs. Yet for astronauts, small and ordinary ...

Scientists investigate psychological responses to long-term experiences of lack of natural light, spatial confinement, ambient noise, living and working with the same small group of people, and mental ...

Alexandra Gillespie is a freelance journalist who covers scuba diving, underwater wildlife, and travel. Her work has appeared in media outlets including Outside, National Geographic, Scuba Diving, and ...

Imagine you’re an astronaut taking a trip into outer space. Only it’s not a short jaunt to the Moon. Instead, your trip will last 120 years. To get there you’d need to drastically reduce your body’s ...

The History of Space Travel in 10 Objects As our shuttles have gone into retirement and we look to the future of what space travel will mean for human exploration, there are plenty of artifacts left ...

The number of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) has ballooned in recent years, and the story is the same as in all popular destinations: traffic is a nightmare. Things have become so congested that ...