What if humanity never needed to colonize Mars or the Moon? O’Neill cylinders propose a completely different future—giant ...

Having babies born in space could produce an interesting conundrum as shown by research with one particular creature.

Ever wonder what it’s like to live in space? Step inside Mission: Astronaut, now open at Orlando Science Center, and ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms ...

Jeff Bezos has already sent people to space in his Blue Origin rockets, now he’s working out a way they could live there. The Amazon founder is dead set on making his ultimate science fiction dreams ...

I mostly keep all four paws on the ground. It’s hard to imagine living out in space. I asked my friend Erica Crespi about it. She’s a biologist at Washington State University. She studies how animals ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The extent of these changes was greater for those who spent longer in space. As NASA ...

On Earth, gravity constantly pulls fluids in your body and your brain toward the center of the Earth. In space, that force disappears. Body fluids shift toward the head, which gives astronauts a puffy ...