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, ...

Scientists loaded three missions worth nearly $1.6 billion on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch Wednesday, toward an orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, to measure the supersonic stream of ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

Your body's blood-making stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), are like factory managers who work best when calm and rested. But when stress hits, like infection or injury, they spring into ...

Earth is surrounded by millions of pieces of space junk — remnants of old satellites, rocket stages, and collisions. Traveling at tens of thousands of kilometers per hour, even a tiny fragment can ...

Space is getting busier as national space agencies and private companies increase the tempo of launches. But today’s approach to space exploration is unsustainable, say researchers, and we need to do ...

The United States Space Force has been testing its top-secret Boeing X-37B space plane for over a decade. Two versions of the unusual spacecraft have completed seven orbital missions over the last 15 ...

A recent study which was published in arXiv has found a hug celestial body in space has been reversing its spin and essentially traveling backwards in time.

In 1978, NASA researcher Donald Kessler and his colleagues published a paper titled “Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt.” The paper laid down a grim warning: a ...

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and cloud services has led to a massive demand for computing power. The surge has strained data infrastructure, which requires lots of electricity to ...