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

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

And who better to tell us about the toughest challenges of astronaut training than a real-life astronaut? We spoke to former NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, a genuine trailblazer who became the very ...

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The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) mean that its human inhabitants are barred from eating crumbly foods as the particles could float away and clog up air vents and ...

Astronaut families are quite similar to military families. If you're a space buff but haven't already seen the 1995 film "Apollo 13," it's worth the watch. It recreates the near-disaster mission ...

Astronaut Suni Williams, of Needham, recently spoke about her nine-month stay at the International Space Station. A thruster malfunction on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft caused the mission to be ...

Chinese astronauts aboard Tiangong station witnessed a match flame transform into a blue sphere in microgravity. Unlike Earth's rising flames, this phenomenon occurs due to altered airflow and heat ...

A NASA astronaut from Minneapolis is set to launch on a mission to the International Space Station next summer. Dr. Anil Menon will head to the space station on the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft in ...