In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

There are no two ways about it—space will kill you if you give it half a chance. More than land, sea, or air, the space environment is entirely hostile to human existence. Precision-engineered ...

In an unpredictable era that has seen the Cold War rekindled, it's worth remembering a remarkable event that took place 50 years ago when the first crewed international space mission, carried out ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...