While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, 2024 may well be remembered as a banner year for those efforts as a host of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 commander Suni Williams works outside the International Space ...

When we gaze up at the night sky, we often marvel at the twinkling stars, distant planets, and expansive galaxies. Yet, beyond the visible spectrum lies a more mysterious aspect of the cosmos—cosmic ...

Hydrogel is something that most of us are familiar with from it being used in contact lenses, burn dressings, and hair gel. In future, it might also be used to shield astronauts from the hazard of ...

The biomedicine outfit BioAstra aims to send its researcher on a flight around the Moon, aboard the leading-edge Orion spacecraft, to chart genetic changes triggered by cosmic rays and to develop anti ...

Astronauts of the future may be radically different from the rest of us in physiology and psychology. So, to what extent ...

A NASA astronaut shared a video from a moment taken from the International Space Station, highlighting the bright lights seen on the Earth's horizon in space, dubbing them the "cosmic fireflies." In ...

SALT LAKE CITY — While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, 2024 may well be remembered as a banner year for those ...

Nick Hague and Suni Williams spent six hours working on NICER, AMS and other equipment outside the International Space Station on Thursday (Jan. 16). When you purchase through links on our site, we ...