One way that astronauts have been fighting bone loss is through strength training. And they're getting some help with a new machine delivered this week by the shuttle Endeavour, which docked with the ...

Blast off and spend 24 hours in space with the astronauts who completed NASA's first ever all-female spacewalk! Christina ...

Orbiting 250 miles above Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) is humanity’s home in space and houses astronauts to conduct scientific research and observations. With all of the difficulties, ...

A team of Rice engineering students has designed an innovative space exercise harness that won this year's Technology Collaboration Center’s Wearables Workshop and University Challenge. Their design ...

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 ...

Expedition 53 crewmates Nichole Ayers and Takuya Onishi take part in an educational outreach downlink from the International Space Station, as seen from behind the scene. Nichole Ayers with NASA and ...

NASA's 2025 astronaut class doesn't seem to include any Black recruits, a first in 40 years at the space agency. Officials would not discuss it.

Astronaut Suni Williams, of Needham, recently spoke about her nine-month stay at the International Space Station. A thruster malfunction on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft caused the mission to be ...

As of Friday (Aug. 15), there are 7 people aboard the International Space Station: Expedition 73 commander Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos; fellow cosmonauts Alexey Zubritsky and ...

By integrating physiological optimisation into standard astronaut training, Axiom hopes to uncover new insights into how the ...

The four Artemis II astronauts selected for a 2026 mission around the moon completed the "Pete and Bobby Challenge," doing 100 pushups and 50 pullups.