In November 2026, a milestone will be reached in human space exploration when Voyager 1 becomes the first man-made object to travel a full light-day away from Earth. Launched in 1977, this remarkable ...

Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or ...

TIME: Much of what you write about in the book involves the idea of “dispersal” as an evolutionary process that could dramatically change the human species. Describe what you mean by that. Scharf: ...

It's exactly one year since a human-made spacecraft made the closest approach to the Sun in history. Called the Parker Solar Probe, the piece of technology came within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million ...

NASA announced Joel Montalbano and Dana Hutcherson will serve as acting managers of Human Flight Programs, effective immediately.

SpaceX currently operates the only crew-capable spacecraft capable of reaching the International Space Station. In June 2025, the bromance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk turned into a ...

Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to ...