Fatima Hayat realized she was terrified of space after watching a few episodes of Cosmos while growing up and saw, with her own eyes, how “vast, empty, eerie, lonely, and meaningless” the universe is.

The second space age is upon us, with its promises of imminent space tourism, inevitable Mars colonization, and independent orbital countries. The fact that science fiction is becoming real excites ...

Astrophobia: The irrational or morbid fear of the stars. Meteorophobia: The irrational or morbid fear of meteors or meteorites. Noctiphobia: The irrational or morbid fear of the night. ‘I finally have ...

This video explores astrophobia – the fear of space – through the terrifying scale of the universe, Bruce McCandless’s untethered spacewalk, the deadly conditions beyond Earth, the Great Filter, and ...