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Spaceflight-linked neuro-ocular syndrome, or SANS, affects astronauts' vision due to microgravity-induced fluid shifts ...

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Space travel affects the human body in unexpected ways. Scientists now highlight a growing concern—eye health.

While an antimatter engine is very far off, researching it could yield other discoveries as well.

From hypothetical magnetic levitation trains and space elevators that aren't even attached to the ground, to very real space ...

Detection of electromagnetic fluctuations that generate ‘killer electrons’ challenges scientific ideas about radiation in our ...

Mission commander, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has rich experience in space travel, is taking the necklace that she ...

Human stasis—a state of prolonged hibernation—could be an enticing possibility for future interstellar travel.

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

Elon Musk's SpaceX has shaken up the space industry, but the competition has so far been unable to counter this. Now there ...