China’s fast-growing commercial space sector is setting its sights on human space tourism, as a Beijing-based startup lays out plans to fly paying passengers on suborbital missions by 2028. The ...

Waking up in a chic hotel room with a view of the solar system could be the future of travel, at least if space company Orbital Assembly has anything to say about it. The U.S.-based company has ...

Where are you going for your next holiday? How about the moon? Experts believe space tourism could blossom into a multi-billion-dollar market within the next decade. It comes as billionaire ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company, recently made a major shift in its strategy that will reshape its operations for at least the next two years. The company announced that it would pause its ...

In A Nutshell Space radiation can damage reproductive DNA. A Mars trip exposes travelers to 662 millisieverts: levels known ...

The NASA SpaceX Crew Dragon took off into the sky over the weekend. It was SpaceX’s first crewed mission in history. For some, it seemed like a pipe dream. But the launch’s success crested a renewed ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing their centerpiece space tourism business to focus efforts on their $3.6 billion contract with NASA to help develop a lunar lander. The company says it ...

KENT, Wash. -- Blue Origin - after spending more than six years developing its space tourism rocket, New Shepard - has finally set a date for its first commercial passenger mission, July 20, and ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that will launch in Florida.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more ...