Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.

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 marked by an oxygen tank explosion and emergency ocean-landing ...

Waiting for news about life on Mars? You’re 120 years late. That story broke on Dec. 9, 1906, when The New York Times ran a major piece under the brooking-no-argument headline, “There Is Life on the ...

Everyone you know younger than 25 has never experienced a moment when a human hasn’t been in space, orbiting our world. That’s a population of around 3 billion people, or about 40% of the 8 billion ...

Astronaut families are quite similar to military families. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...

World Space Week, held each year from October 4–10, is the largest global celebration of space science and technology. Established by the United Nations in 1999, it highlights how space exploration ...

I mostly keep all four paws on the ground. It’s hard to imagine living out in space. I asked my friend Erica Crespi about it. She’s a biologist at Washington State University. She studies how animals ...

Jeff Bezos has already sent people to space in his Blue Origin rockets, now he’s working out a way they could live there. The Amazon founder is dead set on making his ultimate science fiction dreams ...

From deep-sea hydrothermal vents to freezing glaciers, there are plenty of harsh environments on Earth. But they’re nothing compared with outer space. There are, however, a growing list of species, ...

This is the center of the Heart Nebula or IC-1805 in the center is a cluster of stars known as Melotte 15. It is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. Credit - ...