China’s Tiangong Space Station is now fully operational, marking a new era for human spaceflight. But what is life like ...

Imagine living in a giant inflatable space station orbiting Earth or even Mars. Sounds like science fiction? It’s actually ...

In a news briefing following the landing, Nasa spokesperson Steve Stich said: "From a human perspective, all of us feel happy ...

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.

A minimum of a master’s degree in natural sciences, medicine, engineering, mathematics, or computer sciences or a degree as ...

There are many potential dangers of life in space for astronauts including exposure to radiation, the mental health impacts ...

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A ...

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The International Space Station (ISS) is too clean and should be made dirtier to keep astronauts healthy, scientists have ...

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will ...