D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment.

An eight-day mission has turned into a nine-month space stint for two NASA astronauts who are finally set to come home. But ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were selected for the first crewed test flight on Elon Musk’s Starliner and ...

AM to bring astronauts Sunita Williams and Will Pichmore back from the International Space Station after their extended ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

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Scientists have explained everything that might happen to the two 'stranded' NASA astronauts' bodies when they finally return ...

One expert said the International Space Station doesn't exactly smell pleasant and explained why smells linger.

New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...

Astronauts returning to Earth, such as Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, face a range of unusual physiological side effects ...

Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s first trove of scientific data, crucial to ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...