Elon Musk is the rare person with a talent for executing practical solutions to seemingly impractical ideas like high-end electric vehicles (Tesla Motors) and commercial space flight (SpaceX), so when ...

The experiment was failing. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian was in a cave in Spain, one outfitted to resemble the surface of a foreign planet, and she knew it was time to pull out. The goal had been to ...

Solar Expanse is an upcoming strategy and simulation game that places players in charge of a space exploration company during humanity’s early push beyond Earth. Developed by SpaceOps and published by ...

In "The Martian," the film based on Andy Weir's bestselling novel that hit theaters Friday, Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars. From the extreme cold to the deadly radiation, there are ...

Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA’s words, “the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.” Or, to put it ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...