Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s extended stay in the International Space Station will add to what we know about how space affects health.

Space changes the human body in many ways. From bone loss to bloated faces, here's how microgravity and radiation affect the ...

NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come ...

and the taking of the first-ever X-ray image of a human in space, a process that could come in useful for long-duration crewed missions to deep space. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft will be ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

In a statement shared with PEOPLE on March 18, the agency said: “When NASA astronauts are aboard the International Space Station, they receive regular, 40-hour work-week salaries. They do not ...

Related: Yuri Gagarin: Facts about the first human in space Sixty years later, Mattel explains the significance of the doll on the 2025 box. "One tiny step for Barbie, one giant leap for dollkind!" ...

Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of. However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the ...

The custom of flying zero-g indicators began in the former Soviet Union with the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, in 1961. The tradition migrated to the United States ...

Extended stays in space like that of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the 'stranded' astronauts at the International Space Station for nine months, are very valuable for devising systems to protect ...

The first human spaceflight was in 1961. . | Credit: Mattel / collectSPACE.com Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.