A generation ship is not just a spaceship—it’s a ... capable of supporting human life for up to 250 years while in deep space. The challenge of creating such a ship lies not just in ...

For the longest time, human scientific exploration has been confined to the Earth’s outermost solid layer: the crust. This crust has an average thickness of about 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), though it ...

Alien: Earth has finally dropped an official trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller horror set in 2120, a few years before Alien, but well after Prometheus.

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a ragtag group ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

On Tuesday, it was announced that NASA had only first heard back from the vessel when a “heartbeat signal” was picked up by deep space network antennas massively positioned throughout Earth.

Its sinking came after the ship ran into an iceberg during its maiden ... plan For planetary scientist Stern, who has purged deep space of its secrets in the 21st century, witnessing the 20th ...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine fans will remember the Defiant making its debut about midway through the show’s run. Benjamin Sisko, who helped design the experimental ship, took command of the ...