Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his fellow crewmembers conducted over 60 scientific experiments during their 18-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Axiom-4 ...

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 – ...

As long as humans have been traveling into space, astronauts have experienced significant health effects from the extreme conditions of space flight, notably the reduction of gravity. Two Buck ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — don't necessarily behave the same way on our home planet. To better ...

Researching the immune system in space could have payoffs for human aging on earth. Scientists have revealed how the lack of gravity affects the cells of the immune system at single cell resolution.