Van Allen radiation hinders and complicates spaceflight, magnetic instruments, and more.

In an astonishing twist of our technological progress, humans have inadvertently created a space barrier around Earth. This article delves into the nature of this barrier, its formation and its ...

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will host a major celebration of space exploration commemorating humankind’s first flight into space by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Yuri’s Night ...

Humankind has the technology to go to space. Space architect Ariel Ekblaw says the bottleneck now is real estate: getting ...

Many are passionate about colonizing outer space. They argue that it can be "Plan B" to rescue earth, or a solution to depleting resources and human overpopulation, or a way to move polluting ...