Jason Pargin joins a growing list of sci-fi authors growing despondent over how hard it is to explore space in real life.

What happens when your crops fail and you're tens of trillions of miles from Earth?

As we dream of exploring the galaxy, but some insist we're forever stuck in our solar system. Is this a cold, hard truth, or just contrarian naysaying?

Our spaceships have left the solar system and are heading to the stars. If we want to follow them, we're going to have to reinvent everything, ourselves included.

Scientists figured out an ingenious recipe for extra strong concrete perfect for habitats on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Space exploration is about to kick start a new era of nuclear energy and another chance to get the future right.

Imagine being able to sleep for months, if not years, waking up orbiting another world. But is this just wishful thinking, or can humans really learn to hibernate?

Science fiction and popular science say that we can change other worlds to be like ours. In reality, that will be a terrible idea.

The next big space race isn't the United States vs. China, it's Musk vs. Bezos. And who wins has the potential to change our lives.

When you're not being firmly planted onto a solid surface by gravity, it's not just your bones and muscles that suffer. It takes a toll on your brain too.

There are good reasons why designs for human outposts on other planets are starting to look nothing like the typical science fiction tropes with which we've grown up.

Science fiction taught us that humanity's next destination in space should be Mars, but science disagrees.

Astronauts get a very rare and unique perspective on our planet, one in which our world isn't just a steppingstone to the stars, but a fragile home to be protected.

If we're going to explore space, we have to prepare for long periods of isolation and boredom. Can social distancing during this pandemic teach us how to deal with them?

Looking for dying civilizations huddling around a cooling ember of a star isn't just a depressing idea, it's shortsighted science that dismisses life's ability to invent and innovate.