When the United States Space Force was first created, one of its early recruiting ads showed uniformed service members standing watch in spacesuits, gazing over Earth from orbit. The imagery drew ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.

Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

In an astonishing twist of our technological progress, humans have inadvertently created a space barrier around Earth. This article delves into the nature of this barrier, its formation and its ...

Humanity has never been fully satisfied with this side of the horizon. Our ancestors crested mountains and crossed oceans until our species filled every corner of the world. We invented machines for ...

A global team of scientists has identified an often-overlooked biological system - biofilms - as a critical factor in the ...

The winners of the inaugural Global Space Awards were recently announced at a star-studded ceremony at London's Natural History Museum. The event championed innovation and sustainability, while also ...