What’s in a name for an unborn child? Plus tales of troubled teens; walking across England; and journeying to the stars ...

In Pip Adam’s extraordinary, humane book Audition, the stars are both a dystopian place and a site of uncharted possibility.

A weapons expert recalled a chilling warning he received from a Russian tour guide in the 1980s. William R. Forstchen ...

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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with author Samantha Harvey about her new book Orbital, which examines the fascinating mundane-ness of outer space from the perspective of an international space station.

Like the 11-year-old title character of “Elio,” Pixar’s latest original is small and cute. Nothing wrong with that. It’s time to accept that gone are the days of “WALL-E,” “Up” and “Ratatouille,” when ...

'Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning' director Christopher McQuarrie has explained why Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt has never gone to outer space.

Ask someone where outer space is, and they’ll probably point at the sky. It’s up, right? Simple. Except, no one really knows where “air space” ends and “outer space” begins. That might ...

Space, legally. Outer space—including the Moon—from a legal perspective, is a unique domain without direct terrestrial equivalent. It is not, like the high seas, the “common heritage of ...

No beast on Earth is tougher than the tiny tardigrade. It can survive being frozen at -272° Celsius, being exposed to the vacuum of outer space and even being blasted with 500 times the dose of X ...

Ed Wood’s ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’ Getting Opera Adaptation (Exclusive) Thai composer and B-movie fanatic Somtow Sucharitkul is creating an opera based on the "world's worst film." ...

Back in the 60s, the Outer Space Treaty provided us with an assurance of peace and security in the Cold War space race. So much has changed since then — so why hasn't the treaty, asks DW's ...