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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is more than just a club for students who are passionate about ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

When we think of space exploration, images of rockets, astronauts, and the Moon often come to mind. But humanity’s journey ...

On the Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Are humans on the precipice of not only being visitors to outer space, but also becoming permanent residents? Namrata Goswami, ...

Three books push back on a rising tide of optimism about space settlements. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Fifty-five years ago today, the world was looking up as astronauts from Apollo 11 blasted off from the moon to return after a successful mission. However, what you might not know is ...

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From Christopher Nolan's Interstellar to the iconic Back to the Future series, here are the best time travel movies.

Time travel is one of the hallmarks of science fiction, but many time-travel-based movies have plots that leave one with a headache just thinking about them. What if you could travel into the past, ...