After years of work building an exquisitely sensitive instrument, University of Chicago scientists stood and watched as it flew up and out of sight into the fiercely blue Antarctic sky. Launched on ...

When you really want to get away from it all, sometimes even a remote island isn’t remote enough. Thankfully, if a clutch of ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

A batch of bacteria and viruses launched to the International Space Station returned to Earth with unexpected mutations that ...

Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Explore the challenges of international patent law in regulating innovation amid a permanent human presence in outer space.

The curious minds at What If investigate the scenario of the next pandemic coming from outer space, revealing infection risks and extraterrestrial disease threats.

A new proposal suggests borrowing the "Conference of the Parties" model from climate diplomacy to update space law before ...