Dear Doctors: Our 11-year-old son is fascinated with those astronauts who are stuck on the space station. He asks about a lot is how being in space for that long affects the human body. Do you know ...

After being stranded in space for more than nine months, two NASA astronauts are finally jetting back into the Earth's atmosphere. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are due to splash down off Florida's ...

Gravity is a good thing when it comes to how the human body functions, and in a place without gravity - like space - it doesn ...

Spaceflight significantly impacts the human body, causing muscle and bone loss due to reduced gravity and fluid shifts ...

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, ...

Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be ...

This persuasive if diffuse study from gastroenterologist Spiegel (VRx) analyzes how gravity influences people’s health. He argues that not everyone experiences the pull of gravity in the same way. For ...

Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the ...

When a fighter jet banks into a sharp turn, the pilot’s body can be crushed under a force equal to nine times normal gravity.