Here is an explanation of some of the effects on human health of space travel. Sign up here. The human body evolved over millions of years to function optimally in Earth's environment, which ...

Humans evolved in conditions of plentiful gravity and relatively slight background radiation ... Most of the potential health risks of space travel can be mitigated to some extent, scientists ...

NASA astronauts have been the driving forces behind expanding human spaceflight by staying in space for long durations to ...

Space elevators? Nuclear rockets? The future of space travel could look radically different. Imagine taking an elevator to space. Or blasting off in a nuclear rocket. That might sound like science ...

Explainer-How Does Space Travel Affect Astronaut Health? By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high ...

A NASA official has offered some background on why astronauts Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore have had to ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft last June. The duo ...

Astrophysicist Gernot Grömer wants to promote space travel. So he founded the Austrian Space Forum. Grömer sees himself as a “shipbuilder” who’s working on making the journey to Mars ...

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, gravitational waves warp spacetime. In the process, they could imprint ...

With Mach 16, which does 5.4 km per second, a plane would be approaching the 7.9 km per second it takes an object to travel in space. The newly developed oblique detonation engine could fill the ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base’s public affairs team hit on the idea of taking the reenlistment photo during a rocket launch.