The same principles that help astronauts stay strong in microgravity can help us all resist the slow collapse of ageing – and ...

Astronomers have discovered two gas giant exoplanets forming in a dusty disk around the young star, WISPIT 2. Credit: ESO / C ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

Chun Wang went from mining Bitcoin on a MacBook to selling BTC to fund and command Fram2 — the first-ever crewed polar orbit ...

Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the ...

When you ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up, “astronaut” is as classic an answer as “president” or ...

On Earth, gravity constantly pulls fluids in your body and your brain toward the center of the Earth. In space, that force disappears. Body fluids shift toward the head, which gives astronauts a puffy ...

A revamped version of a congressional NASA authorization act moving through the U.S. Senate would add two more years of life to the International Space Station among a slew of new directives for the ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight. When you purchase ...

Colonizing Mars is an obsession among certain space geeks. Elon Musk has made several grandstanding predictions about when he believes humankind will reach the red planet. But as Scott Solomon shows ...