The first time a physicist told me they wanted to get rid of space-time, on a cold January morning earlier this year, I stopped typing my interview notes and clutched my New Scientist mug of tea.

A space career field for enlisted soldiers is coming to the Army as the U.S. builds up its space-based capabilities. The Army is planning for about 900 40D space operations specialists who would ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bhavya Lal, the former acting Chief Technologist at NASA explains how nuclear power could unlock humanity’s next giant leap in space. Our interview with ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

To make those cuts happen — a total of $3.6 billion — NASA would have to close the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and cancel the mission that will bring back samples of Mars ...

Digestive gas gets the best of everyone sooner or later, often in the form of a burp. Burping is how the body clears excess gas from the upper digestive tract, which would otherwise result in ...

That now classic tagline (from Alien, one of the greatest science-fiction horror movies ever made) hinges on a big assumption that most of us broadly make: space is empty. And it is—mostly.

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond ...

That’s right, I’m referring to the “historic” all-female Blue Origin space flight, which took a crew of six women—including three very famous ladies—to suborbital space and back in ...

Will Botox and fillers blast off in space? Lauren Sánchez, the fiancée of Amazon founder and Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos, joined pop star Katy Perry, “CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King and ...

He covers a wide range of stories, including space exploration. Strassmann is also the senior national correspondent for "Face the Nation." Analisa Novak is a content producer for CBS News and the ...