A 36-mile-long starship designed to carry 1,000 humans on a one-way trip to the nearest known exoplanet has won a major interstellar design competition, raising hard questions about what it would ...

New potential climate crisis just dropped.

Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Jeff Bezos isn't just the founder of Amazon—he's also the CEO of Blue Origin, the space company he launched to help humanity think bigger. But unlike some of his billionaire peers, Bezos isn't looking ...

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...