One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

The space-faring mice spent about 28 days in those conditions before returning to Earth in April. Mortreux and her colleagues then analyzed the weight, strength and movement of the 23 surviving ...

But, just as home cooking is cheaper than getting takeout, when it comes to more permanent settlements, this kind of supply voyages would be prohibitively expensive: we will need to grow our own food ...

It's well known that spaceflight causes muscle atrophy and other biological changes in reduced gravity, and especially in ...

Mars used to have a warmer and wetter climate, which changed after billions of years because the Sun's solar wind removed ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, 24 mice were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to explore the impact of low ...

Videos of astronauts on the Moon show them often bouncing across the lunar surface, helped by the fact that the gravity of our satellite is just one-sixth of Earth’s surface gravity. That experience ...

Humans did not evolve for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying ...

That’s exactly what a study published today in Science Advances sought to do. The researchers exposed mice aboard the ISS to ...

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

“Once we get back out to the pad, we'll configure for launch pending completion of the work in the VAB. And at the pad, we ...