Twenty-five years ago, humanity made a significant leap into permanent space habitation. On November 2, 2000, NASA astronaut ...

When NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore finally returned to Earth in March, they had spent 286 days in space. Not willingly, however, as a string of technical delays kept prolonging ...

With NASA’s Artemis program preparing for the first crewed moon landing since 1972, four commercial space stations in development, and companies like SpaceX setting their sights on Mars, long-duration ...

For the past 25 years, the entire living human population has never been on Planet Earth at the same time. That's because, since 2000, at least a few humans have been living aboard the International ...

Space travel sounds exciting until you realise how harsh it is on the human body. Without gravity, normal biological systems ...

Imagine a future where humans live in huge 'space oases' on Mars – luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food. Robots are sent into the vast Martian wilderness, ...

As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question. Spaceflight has a broad impact on the way our body functions — and that includes our reproductive ...