NASA hopes to send humans to Mars by 2030 on a round-trip mission that could take up to three years -- far longer than any human has ever traveled in space
Two NASA contractors, Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, were recently awarded task orders to ramp up operations on designing new spacesuits for spacewalks
A whole host of landers, orbiters, and rovers study the Martian surface day in and day out for clues about its environment and its puzzling past, but despi
Asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun along with all of the planets. Many of them are relatively close to the Sun, but others are further away and
Stephen Hawking has long had the attitude of a doomsayer, suggesting that humans will inevitably cause their own demise as a part of their nature. Of cours
After what felt like eons of hype, SpaceX officially launched its Falcon Heavy mega-rocket from launch pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 3:45 P.M. on T
Orbiting the planet Earth, over and over, collecting data about outer space, microgravity, and their effects on the human body, is the International Space
Buzz Aldrin, the second American astronaut to walk on the Moon following Neil Armstrong, was recently medically evacuated from Antarctica, where he and oth
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced this week that it has made its first major rocket burn maneuver for the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission sin
A manned mission to Venus? No thanks! you may think, with hellish surface conditions including crushing pressures, an average temperature a little under 90
How can long-term space flight influence astronaut health, and specifically their organs? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ho
You've probably heard of the Orion space capsule. It's part of the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle or (MPCV), NASA's next manned spacecraft. Weighing 21 tons,
Remember all those science fiction movies that showed space travelers encased in sleep chambers? The premise was that humans could be put into a deep sleep
A new study published in Nature features the mineralized remains of what the team of scientists from University College London think to be bacteria that li
An outbreak of Marburg virus has killed nine people and sickened at least sixteen others in Equatorial Guinea's first outbreak of the deadly virus. Mar