Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A new space tourism concept, unlike Blue Origin’s capsule ...

NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.

Physicists are quietly rewriting the rulebook for how we might cross the gulf between stars, not by bolting bigger rockets to ...

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women – Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez – on a suborbital journey to the edge of space. The headlines ...

“Completing Development Flight 2 is a defining moment for us,” said Taber MacCallum, cofounder and chief technical officer of Space Perspective in a statement. “This uncrewed flight not only proves ...

Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in the past. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Space tourism is a growing industry offering suborbital, orbital, and potentially lunar flights to non-professional astronauts. The high cost is attributed to advanced technology, manufacturing, labor ...

The article presents a debate on whether space tourism is irresponsible, highlighting concerns about its high carbon emissions compared to other activities. Arguments in favor of space tourism suggest ...

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, ...

Nobody will be giving out any medals now that Blue Origin’s eleventh crewed space flight is in the books. The brief suborbital sojourn lifted off April 14, at 8:30 a.m. CDT and landed just 11 minutes ...

During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side? Willy Ley wrote prolifically about the ...