Lettuce grown in space contains 29-31% less calcium and 25% less magnesium than Earth crops, creating serious health risks ...

Life on the International Space Station isn't always easy. There's not a lot of room, no showers, and no laundry. Photos show how astronauts live.

The life of an astronaut may look glamorous from afar, but those who have really been to space know that many aspects of space travel are flat-out gross. Astronauts aren't able to shower on their ...

Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space is adapting the human body to extraterrestrial conditions. Business ...

The ISS feels impossibly far at 250 miles up, but lunar missions go 240,000 miles out - over 1000x the distance. It's a ...

Spending 178 days in space is a long time, and enough to make anybody start thinking deeply about life and the way they live.

Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969 that laid the foundation for humans to walk on the ...

The microgravity conditions of the International Space Station (ISS) mean that its human inhabitants are barred from eating crumbly foods as the particles could float away and clog up air vents and ...

A recent study during astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's ISS journey suggests that astronauts with diabetes can safely undertake ...

NASA revealed the members of its 2025 astronaut class, the 24th group in the agency's history — some of whom may be among the ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams opens up to PEOPLE about spending 9 months in space, what she missed the most and her ...