What happens to microbes when they leave Earth? Scientists studying bacteria in space have discovered they can mutate in surprising ways - sometimes even becoming stronger. This video explores whether ...

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Outer Worlds was widely seen as a decent stab at mapping Obsidian's first-person RPG style onto a new retro-future sci-fi setting, but what really ...

A Flowerlike satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever put into orbit. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a joint project ...

Three books push back on a rising tide of optimism about space settlements. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an ...

Dark Reading's senior news writer Alexander Culafi sat down with Andrzej Olchawa and Milenko Starcik from Vision Space at Black Hat USA 2025 to examine vulnerabilities in space mission systems. The ...

Back in 2021, Hannah’s love of all things nerdy collided with her passion for writing — and she hasn’t stopped since. She covers pop culture news, writes reviews, and conducts interviews on just about ...

A Baltimore man was sentenced to life on Friday for brutally murdering former Loyola Basketball player Jamal Barney in October 2023. Dayrel McFarland will be serving a life sentence plus three years ...

The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) reported on Saturday a transition towards more inclusive global participation in outer space activities, with the growing involvement of ...

No floor, no mat, and yet—astronauts are performing asanas in space! NASA and other space agencies now include yoga as part of astronaut training to fight muscle loss, bone weakening, and mental ...

Tom Cruise has many ties to Florida: His mother lived near Naples, and he owns a condo near Clearwater. The SpaceX Inspiration4 crew spoke to Tom Cruise via Zoom call while they were in space. NASA ...