Medicine & TechnologyResearchers at Thomas Jefferson University's Sidney Kimmel Medical College will launch three studies next year about how space travel could affect the human body as part of the first private mission to the ISS.
Spacewalking astronauts were able to successfully equip the International Space Station with the first, in a series of powerful solar panels earlier today.
NASA Challenger crew members were likely conscious in the aftermath of the 1986 explosion. Their capsule was ejected intact into the fireball just 73 seconds after the launch.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the last call for interested people to join their space crew - including people with physical disabilities and people standing below 130cm (about 4'3").
As part of its preparation for Mars exploration, China has built a “Mars Camp” in Lenghu Town of the northwestern Qinghai Province to simulate the red planet’s environment.
Alyssa Carson is getting ready to be the first-ever human to go to Mars on a one-way mission, as NASA has not selected or planned yet, specifically for a voyage in one direction.
NASA isolated the Apollo 11 astronauts for 3 weeks over a century ago. In this pandemic time, what lessons have the astronauts tell us about their quarantine?
For one who is not so knowledgeable about spaceflight, it is important to know the effects of the absence of gravity or weightlessness on the health of humans, as revealed in a NASA study.
Short bursts of artificial gravity cannot compensate for diminished cognitive capacity, according to a study simulating the consequences of weightlessness.