Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists’ understanding of the potential effects of space exploration on the human body. Stem cells are found ...

Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...

As space travel advances, colonization of other planets edges closer to reality. But should we spread to other parts of the galaxy? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...

The Orion spacecraft being prepared for the Artemis 2 mission. Exploration programs would get a sharp funding increase in a House spending bill for fiscal year 2026. Credit: NASA/Rad Sinyak The recent ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A new life awaits you in the off-world ...

Soon enough, though, it became clear that spaceflight is not, in and of itself, all that harmful to mammals, their hearts, or ...

NASA and Nokia, the Finnish telecom, announced a partnership to put a 4G cellular communications network on the moon, a key ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...