A new chapter in X-ray history has been written over hundreds of miles above our planet. A medical X-ray of a human hand has been taken successfully in space for the first time. The remarkable feat ...

After spending an extended nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth. What was originally a short mission turned into a prolonged ...

NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

A new 28-minute film explores the medical, social, political and ethical challenges of parenthood and child-rearing that ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch ... of their mission it may take longer." Space radiation is different from radiation experienced ...

As Stephen Hawking predicted, black holes don’t only draw particles in, but release particles into space. This Hawking radiation could have scattered into the universe from the earliest black holes.

WASHINGTON-The human body was not built for space flight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the Earth’s confines ...

So, spending time in space, without gravity or sunlight, and exposed to radiation, "poses a real challenge, physically". And for "stranded" astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch ...

“Cosmic radiation consists of highly energetic particles (mainly protons) originating from the sun, as well as deep-space events such as supernova explosions. “Life on Earth is relatively ...