WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other issues. As a result, trekking beyond the ...

Sunita Williams is an American astronaut of Indian-Slovenian ... and forgetting how to walk sheds light on the physical toll of space missions. Studies have shown that an extended stay in ...

Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like cooking, eating, using the toilet, and just about every other mundane ...

In a recent video chat with earthlings, NASA astronaut Nick Hague talked about what makes the International Space Station (ISS) so special. “The coolest thing about the space station is the reas ...

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 ...

Williams ran the Falmouth Road Race in space twice. The astronauts have been stuck on the ISS since June due to problems with their spacecraft Boeing's Starliner. The problems included helium ...

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space. Spend a single day outside our planet's protective ...

Boeing's Starliner astronauts are in the final stretch of their unexpectedly long stint in Earth orbit — and they're setting the record straight on all the "stranded astronauts" talk.

NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore want to clear up any cosmic confusion about their prolonged space trip. Three weeks after President Donald Trump said the astronauts had been "virtually ...

The NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station on the ill-fated Boeing Starliner are pushing back on President Donald Trump's claim that the two had been "abandoned" in orbit.

Billionaire Elon Musk has accused the former Biden-led administration of leaving two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, stuck in International Space Station and promised to bring ...

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk accused former President Joe Biden of leaving two astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station for “political reasons.” “They were left up there for ...