Eric Long / NASM, SI Shortly after his return to earth in ... postal covers they had taken aboard their spacecraft. As a result, they were banned from ever flying in space again.

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS, is not about ...

ESA has returned the first metal 3D-printed part made in space, a major step toward self-sufficient space missions. The first ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

ELVIS, or Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, is a holographic microscope that can deliver detailed 3D views of cells and ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

it serves as natural space hub connecting Earth, the moon and deep space, offering support for space science exploration, the deployment of space infrastructure, and crewed deep-space missions ...

Earth sciences, meteorology, space science and engineering, land and water survival, aircraft operations and scuba diving. Once they've been given their mission, they then begin specialist training.

Named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the gum drop-shaped New Shepard launch vehicle is designed to be fully reusable, with a capsule that returns to Earth via three ...

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission. • The company’s New Shepard rocket lifted ...

even on the International Space Station (ISS). In 1970, in fact, one astronaut on a moon mission got in a pickle when he discovered he forgot to file his taxes before leaving Earth, which we'll ...