When astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams embarked on Boeing’s Starliner capsule on June 5, 2024, they expected to be away from home for just over a week. Instead, they spent around 9 months ...

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station poses for a photo during a crew equipment interface test The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space ...

After the last astronauts landed on the moon (for now) in 1972, what happened next? The BBC Two series "Once Upon A Time In Space' follows the trail of the human space program, from the space shuttle ...

Scientists are learning what short and long-duration space missions do to human bodies. Some changes are common like a puffier face, bone loss, and less sleep. Here are nine ways the harsh conditions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space is packed with hazards and health risks, and researchers have spent decades discovering what space travel does to the human ...

When NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore finally returned to Earth in March, they had spent 286 days in space. Not willingly, however, as a string of technical delays kept prolonging ...

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a recently-published study explains Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at ...

"Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands now!" Fifty years ago today (July 17), at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT), history was made as two crewed spacecraft launched by two countries docked together in orbit ...

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...

Space is hard, especially on our bones and muscles, our hearts, our eyes, and basically nearly every human organ. And yet, we can’t stay away from it. Nearly 700 people have been to space so far, and ...