The young crew of the Starship Enterprise in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek(2009) achieved a heroic feat that a different group of Starfleet Academy cadets in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine failed to do.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine shouldn’t have worked. The franchise was founded on ideas of exploration, “Wagon Train to the stars,” as creator Gene Roddenberry put it. It originally focused on ...

On the night of Oct. 10, 1985, Lt. Cmdr. Barry Steel, call sign Vert, was relaxing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. The ship was cruising in Alert 60, a readiness condition with weapons ...

Both the deep sea and space are difficult to reach and even more difficult to explore. You can’t breathe the air, temperatures are extreme, gravity varies, and atmospheric pressure makes survival ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space travelers face on long-duration missions, even before considering the psychological ...

In this sleek film by Flying Lotus, Eiza González plays a marooned explorer haunted by the killing of her crew mates. By Robert Daniels When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

Some 2.5 million years ago, viruses in Lake Tanganyika experienced an unexplained explosion in diversity. A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ...

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even in silence." The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be ...

During NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch in March, select members of the four-person crew will participate in exercise and medical ...

Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of. However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the ...