Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a ...

NASA aims to travel to the moon again—and beyond. Here’s a look at the 21st-century race to send humans into space.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International ...

The central premise of the blockbuster film “Project Hail Mary” is a long-shot mission with a familiar goal: Save humanity from extinction. While the details of the threat facing humanity are new to ...

Last year, astronauts in orbit took diagnostic x-rays of their own bodies for the very first time—and now, we get to see the results. On March 31, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 ...

IEEE SpaceTech committee brings together experts, companies and governments enabling outer space development.  The IEEE SPACE ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), ...

In June 2025, the bromance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk turned into a public feud. Upset by rising government debt, the SpaceX CEO called the president's new "Big Beautiful" budget ...

Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic ...

Bypassing the moon and sending crews straight to Mars would be a serious error. Credit: NASA We’ve observed with concern a rising trend in human spaceflight ...