Several companies now offer a taste of commercial space travel — if you can stomach the price tag. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic are among the ...

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 ...

In a world that often demands LGBTQIA+ people shrink themselves to survive, queer travellers are taking up space—joyfully, defiantly, and on their own terms. From London Pride to rainbow-flag-lined ...

While Space X, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic may have captured the imaginations of Americans when it comes to the potential of space travel, these three well-known names are not the only contenders ...

Space poses unique challenges to astronaut health, from bone loss to muscle deterioration. At Wake Forest University, scientists are using mice in space to study these effects and develop solutions ...

Traveling to space is brutal on the body. Spaceflight can cause astronauts’ bones to lose density, their brain and eye nerves to swell, and their genes to change expression. Research suggests spending ...

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, ...