When NASA launches its next stage in lunar exploration next year, its crew will be literally beside themselves as they swing ...

A resilient gut microbe, Bacillus subtilis, has survived the extreme conditions of space launch and reentry - great news for ...

Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space is adapting the human body to extraterrestrial conditions. Business ...

HOUSTON — NASA has introduced its new class of astronaut candidates, some of whom may be among the first people to set foot on Mars. The cadre — the 24th astronaut class in NASA's history, and the ...

While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities ...

When you’ve spent 6 months orbiting Earth in the International Space Station, your perspective on the planet and its problems is likely to change forever. Few people understand this more intimately ...

As of Friday (Aug. 15), there are 7 people aboard the International Space Station: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos; fellow cosmonauts Alexey Zubritsky and ...

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

NASA and SpaceX are partners on the Crew missions, which send astronauts to the ISS for months-long scientific expeditions. The Crew-11 mission is due to get off the ground no earlier than Thursday, ...