Blue Origin completed a historic suborbital flight, sending the first wheelchair user to space and back aboard its New Shepard rocket.

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and her five teammates, who nicknamed themselves the "Out of the Blue," spent several minutes in ...

The 2025 winter solstice will take place at 10:03 a.m. Eastern time Sunday, Dec. 21. The winter solstice is almost here to ...

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In a few days we'll arrive again at Christmas. Christmases come around faster now than they used to. When I was young it seemed as if the next one would never get here, and now they zoom past at such ...

If there's one thing 'Star Trek' loves, even in times of peace, it's a scrap between Starfleet and the Klingons.

Ever since William Hartnell burst onto our screens in November 1963 as the First Doctor, there have been 17 total iterations ...

A billion years ago, days lasted 19 hours: the balance between the oceans, the atmosphere, and the Moon slowed down the Earth ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...