As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel truly safe? Far from ...

As humans begin to colonize space, it's inevitable that some will suffer a cardiac arrest. Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives -- and researchers say they've now ...

The junior space cadet may scream out in the night as he dreams man’s ancient dream of falling through space, but he usually wakes up, at worst, on the floor, with nothing more than a slight bump. The ...

Saturday's launch marked Blue Origin's 16th New Shepard flight with passengers aboard since Bezos, his brother and two others blasted off on the first such flight in July 2021. Including Saturday's ...

Space news and reference site.Last week I had a chance to re-enter a world few have visited – a realm only space travelers- astronauts, cosmonauts and the like – normally get a chance to enter.

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

World Space Week Youth Inspiration Program Joins Students from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Thailand, China, Norway and United States to Symbolically Launch Humankind’s Next ...

Dutch chemist Paul Poodt has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions. If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, ...

Take that, Richard Branson. Take that, Jeff Bezos and William Shatner and all the suborbital space tourists who have been blasting off the Earth in recent weeks for a few minutes of weightlessness.

As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel truly safe? Far from it – ...