NASA Infographic Reveals Effects of a Year in Space. Published Sep 16, 2015 at 7:50 AM EDT Updated May 14, 2017 at 6:16 PM EDT. By . Lucy is the deputy news editor for Newsweek Europe.

NASA's asteroid-capture mission will capture an asteroid and tow it within reach of human astronauts by 2025. See how it works in this SPACE.com infographic.

NASA tells us that Kelly will see almost 11,000 sunrises and sunsets and will run just under 650 miles on his own special space treadmill – and then it gets to the really interesting stuff.

Studies estimate that for every federal dollar spent on NASA, the economy is boosted by as much as $14. NASA has a funding problem. The agency's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel warned in its 2013 ...

Recently, NASA held a workshop in Houston to discuss a change in the search for life. That change would involve a detailed search for signs of advanced civilizations called technosignatures.

Last week, several Congressmen from the House of Representatives introduced a bill (PDF) that, if passed into law, would restructure NASA’s leadership. The new law would take away most of the ...

Aside from eliminating NASA's dependence on Russia to send astronauts into orbit, the SpaceX launch is significant for another reason: cost. Under a program called Commercial Crew, NASA awarded ...

NASA's next-generation Z-2 spacesuit prototype is the next evolutionary step in astronaut space clothes. See how NASA's futuristic, Tron-like Z-2 spacesuit works in this Space.com infographic.

NASA's journey to the Red Planet will be a long one. But what will help get the space agency to Mars is the Space Launch System's RS-25 rocket engines. This engine model has been used before -- in ...

NASA’s GRACE satellite mission, launched in 2002, measures changes in the amount of water that is held underground in aquifers. According to new data analysis (from Richey et al 2015), most of the ...

NASA has released an infographic detailing what will happen to astronaut Scott Kelly's body while he spends a record 12 months in space. The space agency released the graphic this week to ...

NASA, the American space agency, has released an informative infographic, detailing what will happen to astronaut Scott Kelly's body while he spends a record 12 months in space. Kelly, along with ...