Most people do not think about space in their daily lives. Yet it now underpins communications, navigation, finance, food security, climate insight and health.

When discussing space research, particularly the potential of actually living in space, the conversation naturally comes to the International Space Station (ISS). It makes sense; the ISS is the ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host David Ariosto speaks with Juan Alonso — CTO and Co-founder of Luminary Cloud and professor at Stanford University — about the rapid transformation underway in ...

Though sci-fi movies would have us believe that space is incredibly cold — even freezing — space itself isn't exactly cold. In fact, it doesn't actually have a temperature at all. Temperature is a ...

In this episode of Space Minds, host Sandra Erwin sits down with former NASA astronaut and Space Force leader Brig. Gen. Nick Hague for a wide-ranging conversation on how the U.S. Space Force is ...

There is an isotope called helium-3 that could cool new quantum computers. It's rare on Earth, but plentiful on the moon. At a market price of $20 million a kilo, it might make economic sense to ...

Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, millions of pieces orbit the Earth, from broken satellites to lost ...

The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit in 2003 but now boasts spaceflight capabilities second only to the United States. The second trend is the ...

Most astronauts who menstruate pause their cycle with hormones before hitting the stars, but in the future, we'll need more options. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...