Equipping spacecraft with x-ray machines could boost safety for long-duration spaceflights—like a crewed mission to Mars ...

Exposure to microgravity aboard the International Space Station causes mitochondria in human cells and in worms to produce ...

Medical care in space has long faced a quiet but serious limitation. For more than 40 years, astronauts relied on ultrasound as their only imaging tool.

Scientists are trying to recreate the biology that lets animals survive months without food or water, in hopes of making deep-space travel possible ...

Lunar settlements will look dramatically different from the glittering skyscraper-filled cities on Earth, experts told ...

The problem is that NASA has been given two tasks concerning the moon that may be in conflict.

"A long-term lunar stay would challenge the nervous system in one of the most fundamental ways possible," the neuroscientist ...

CBP's elite team reveals how cartels use 32 storm drain tunnel entry points from the Rio Grande to smuggle migrants ...

In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The ...

AS countries prepare for a new era of human exploration, the race to grow food in space is emerging as one of the most important scientific contests of the decade. China, the United States and Europe ...

BEIJING — China’s Shenzhou-23 space station crew has completed emergency decision-making assessments and tests on emotional states, as part of a broader effort to study how long-duration spaceflights ...