Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michi Benthaus poses before her historic flight into space. - Courtesy Blue Origin Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has announced the participants on its next space tourist flight, the 37th launch for the New Shepard rocket configuration, and one crew member is of particular note. Engineer ...

TIME Studios is producing the Netflix documentary series Countdown: Inspiration 4 Mission to Space, starting Sept. 6. It’s been 52 years since the artist Jeff Gates made a reservation to go to the ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The brains of astronauts ...

On June 4, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin aerospace company completed its fifth human-crewed spaceflight. Of the six people making up the astronaut crew, one was a woman making history: Katya Echazarreta, an ...

Author and space philosopher aims to experience the ‘Overview Effect’ firsthand, then share it with the world Supporters will raise funds to send him and a travel partner on a spaceflight Space travel ...

Falling debris can travel at about 30 times the speed of sound, creating sonic booms that shake the ground Scientists haven’t heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the ...

Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just became the first wheelchair user ever to travel past the Kármán Line — a common ...

They say travel broadens your mind but, if you’re travelling into space, it could displace your brain. Results of new study add to a growing body of evidence that astronauts’ brains change position ...