The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...

Follow the space program since the moon landing in the four-part documentary "Once Upon a Time in Space". Here’s how to watch ...

Since the first crew of astronauts reached the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2000, humanity has had a continuous ...

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

A fringe new theory suggests that time is the fundamental structure of the physical universe, and space is merely a byproduct. According to Gunther Kletetschka, a geologist — not a physicist, you’ll ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

And while most people tend to be asleep at about the time of liftoff, Space Coast residents might wake up from a sonic boom.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University graduate student named Carolina Figueiredo stumbled onto a massive coincidence. She ...