Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

You may have heard about the extensive testing facilities for spacecraft and equipment, but how do scientists prepare for the human aspect of space exploration?

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Domina Stamas participated in a two-week analog astronaut mission in Poland simulating life on the moon. The Westlake Charter ...

With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a ...

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

Many of my physiologic systems replicated somebody who's 20 or 30 years older than me.” Now there may be a solution: robot ...

The ISS has “come into its own as a very sophisticated scientific laboratory,” says retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who ...