Science fiction loves to take us to desolate alien worlds with low-gravity, and envision creatures evolved to those or humans ...

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

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

Physicists have demonstrated with unprecedented accuracy that the speed of light remains constant. In 1887, a landmark physics experiment was carried out by American researchers Michelson and Morley.

From masterpieces like Aliens to cult classics like Serenity, these sci-fi triumphs offer the most exhilarating depictions of ...

On Episode 187 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Glen Swanson, author of the new Star Trek history ...

Food for astronauts has traditionally been a boring, bland liquid, but China may have solved this problem with an oven that ...

It's a long trip to the red planet and space is tight, but eating well could require just a few simple ingredients.

While the flashiest part of space exploration is the launch, the landing is just as important to completing the mission, and ...

Encouraged by successes in understanding black holes, theoretical physicists are applying what they’ve learned to whole ...

Here's the semi-forgotten story of how, in 1986, NASA picked an Appleton high school student's experiment to fly on the space ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...