On the Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Are humans on the precipice of not only being visitors to outer space, but also becoming permanent residents? Namrata Goswami, ...

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, ...

What happens to the human brain when the force of gravity is removed from the equation? New research is beginning to reveal that not only is space travel a challenge to the human body’s muscles and ...