Nearly 50 years ago, NASA launched what would become its first interstellar spacecraft, and this year Voyager 1 is set to ...

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

Our readers enjoy getting to grips with this one, pondering everything from what this planet might look like to the various ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth's ...

As the number of space travelers is increasing through commercial missions, it becomes more important to understand how space affects the human body. A team led by researchers at Baylor College of ...

As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of ...

They say travel broadens your mind but, if you’re travelling into space, it could displace your brain. Results of new study add to a growing body of evidence that astronauts’ brains change position ...

For over a century, rocket propulsion has followed a simple principle; burn fuel, expel it backward, and Newton's third law pushes you forward. Since Konstantin Tsiolkovsky first formulated the rocket ...