Space Travel

"The LightSail 2 mission is a game-changer for spaceflight and advancing space exploration," said Bill Nye, whose Planetary Society funded the project.

A leading Russian space scientist claimed his team is developing "science fiction" technology and accused Elon Musk of creating a rocket "based on old, long-developed and used engines."

NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June—caught in a planet-encircling dust storm.

UFO skepticism has become something of a religion with an agenda.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch astronauts to the International Space Station this year but the company's fueling technique is worrying for some.

SpaceTime allows VR users to explore the world from outer space.

Factors including microgravity and radiation make the space environment hostile for humans.

Explorers may need to extract the substance from rocks.

Results from taste tests were not immediately available.

Psychological tests for the first Mars colony inhabitants start this year.

The space station began as a single module in 1998 and people did not start living at the outpost until the year 2000.

John Young had the longest career of any astronaut.

Between the total solar eclipse, the supermoon, and potential space tourism, the moon was the distraction Americans needed in 2017.

The astronauts also have plans to see the new "Star Wars" movie.

"We'll be Earth independent."

Friday's Falcon 9 launch and landing was succesful, perhaps ushering in an age of reusable rockets.

Yuri Milner is only one of many of the world's billionaires who are using their fortunes to help humanity explore the universe and maybe even find some alien life.

Fedor can already fire guns, lift weights and drive in a straight line.

"You're holding talks on scientific and cultural cooperation with other, alien civilizations."

The change in position causes blurry vision, migraines and other symptoms.

We aren't rushing to Mars largely because those in the position to fund such a race have seen the bill for the last one.

Bezos accepted the first Buzz Aldrin Space Innovation Award from the famous astronaut just days before the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary.

The space agency is bringing its historical footage to the masses, and there are some gems in there.

We'll just need to go there and find out.

A small step for mankind, but a giant leap for fast food corporations.

Russia's Deputy Prime Minister promised Moscow wasn't building a Terminator, then shared a video of a new android firing two pistols at once.

It seems inevitable that humans are going to Mars, but unless they figure out the radiation problem, all that preparation will be moot.

Chinese officials want to launch the first Chinese permanent space station by 2022.

We have the technology to send people to Mars—the bottleneck at the moment is the cost, which stems from a few issues mainly relating to reusability and refueling.

You could make a second internet on Mars, but it would function independently of Earth's and any connection to Earth's internet would be painfully slow.