In a space-age milestone, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched a wheelchair-using engineer and handicap advocate to the edge of space Saturday, a 10-minute trip that allowed her to enjoy a few minutes of ...

Aerospace engineer Michi Benthaus made spaceflight history on Saturday morning (Dec. 20). Blue Origin launched Benthaus and her five crewmates on a suborbital spaceflight from the company's West Texas ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. “It was the coolest experience,” said Michaela “Michi” Benthaus, a ...

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...

The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. The flight took off at ...

Michaela "Michi" Benthaus and teammates spent several minutes in microgravity. Blue Origin made history Saturday, sending for the first time a person who uses a wheelchair past the Kármán line, an ...

A federal judge on Monday said the U.S. government denied due process to the Venezuelan men it deported to a prison in El Salvador in March after President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. The ...

Claims that the Nazca mummies represent a new alien species originate from a self-published paper by a retired paleontologist. A detailed peer review challenges these conclusions, identifying the ...

A 33-year-old aerospace engineer has made space travel history, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to pass the boundary of outer space. Michaela "Michi" Benthaus, a German aerospace ...