Hydrogel is something that most of us are familiar with from it being used in contact lenses, burn dressings, and hair gel. In future, it might also be used to shield astronauts from the hazard of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After more than five months in space, four astronauts on a mission known as Crew-11 are about to cut their mission short and ...

SALT LAKE CITY — While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, 2024 may well be remembered as a banner year for those ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams works outside the International Space ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent might they resemble or represent ordinary humans?

Four astronauts are on the verge of becoming the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic Apollo era came to an end. As early as February, the crew of a ...

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti ...

An astronaut has shared a jaw-dropping gallery of pictures taken in space. NASA's Don Pettit has gained a distinguished reputation for his show-stopping photography from the International Space ...

Dr. Zahida Sultanova works for the University of East Anglia and is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She is a member of European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) and Ecology and Evolutionary ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16). When you purchase through links on our site, we ...