When Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian to board the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Axiom Mission-4, he carried with him not only national pride but years of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyone needs a good night's sleep to perform at their best—including astronauts. A technology demonstration launching to the International ...

There are six people living on the Chinese space station Tiangong at the moment, and the plan to bring three of them back is ...

The Artemis programme and others aim to send humans to the Moon and, eventually, to Mars. Innovations in health care that support the mission crew could also benefit people at home. Farhan M. Asrar is ...

Astronaut families are quite similar to military families. If you're a space buff but haven't already seen the 1995 film "Apollo 13," it's worth the watch. It recreates the near-disaster mission ...

Sleep deficiency is pervasive among astronauts before and during space flight, and the reported incidence of sleep-promoting medication use is 20 times greater than the proportion of Americans ...

Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial ...