Human spaceflight has entered a phase where one company effectively controls the only operational ride to orbit for professional crews and most private passengers. SpaceX has turned what was once a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The rigors of space travel could accelerate changes in the human body usually associated with aging. According to a new study of ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), ...

IEEE SpaceTech committee brings together experts, companies and governments enabling outer space development.  The IEEE SPACE ...

Last year, astronauts in orbit took diagnostic x-rays of their own bodies for the very first time—and now, we get to see the results. On March 31, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 ...

India's second astronaut to travel to space, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, says the country's next decade in space ...

On January 14, 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration," promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, NASA's Artemis program is ...

In June 2025, the bromance between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk turned into a public feud. Upset by rising government debt, the SpaceX CEO called the president's new "Big Beautiful" budget ...

Colossal super-rockets being produced by billionaires Elon Musk snd Jeff Bezos are set to carry astronauts across the heavens in a new "Golden Age of Space Exploration" (Photo by NASA via Getty Images ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, we explore how microgravity accelerates aging—and guest Dr. Nadia Maarouf shares her insights on the phenomenon and what she’s doing to help protect astronauts.

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic ...