SpaceX's offer to bring back NASA's 'stranded' astronauts was rejected by the Biden administration as the situation was ...

NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, ...

While plastic 3D printing has been done on the ISS before, this is the first time metal has been printed in space. This is a ...

Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen our immune systems. But sterile living ...

Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...

Astronauts in isolated space habitats could benefit from the intentional fostering of diverse microbes from humanity's ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

New research claims there may be too few germs on the ISS, which could actually be negatively impacting astronaut health.

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If ...

Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A ...

The ISS’s microbial environment most closely resembles a hospital isolation room. It could be making astronauts sick.