NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year ...

A NASA satellite just woke up from hibernation in deep space. Here is what it can tell us - The probe is six billion miles ...

New Horizons is often placed into a resource-saving mode while cruising long distances, and had been in hibernation near ...

Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and ...

If you are at least marginally interested in sci-fi literature and movies, then you probably know that in these works of fiction space travel is possible for humans generally in two ways: either ...

Imagine you’re an astronaut taking a trip into outer space. Only it’s not a short jaunt to the Moon. Instead, your trip will last 120 years. To get there you’d need to drastically reduce your body’s ...

Imagine going to sleep for months at a time and then waking up just in time to land on Mars. Hibernation is second nature to bears and other mammals…but there’s no reason humans can’t do it too.

As humans, would we ever think of giving up eating, drinking, or even staying awake for months on end to survive a harsh cold winter? We may not even adopt this lifestyle, but some species in the ...