While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities ...

It's World Space Week! This year, the theme is "Living in Space", so we're revisiting our best articles on the challenges and ...

The helmet stripe symbolizes the Mach diamond, also known as shock diamonds, which form during high-speed combustion under ...

Previous experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have shown that certain types of bacteria can survive in ...

Are astronauts aging faster in space? A groundbreaking new study from UC San Diego reveals that human stem cells — ...

At an event last week, Bezos said that space travel (and living) would “accelerate” in the next two decades. Bezos previously ...

If cinema is an invitation to escape the real world, there's no better place to go to then the stars. However, while there are plenty of movies about space travel circling the cosmos, which ones are ...

At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind runs up against the interstellar medium, the gas, dust, and radiation in the ...