Space changes you, even during short trips off-planet. Four people who spent three days outside Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes, including modest declines in cognitive tests, stressed immune systems and genetic changes in their cells, scientists report in a package of papers published Tuesday in the journal Nature and several other … Read more
Astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor for the STS-67/ASTRO-2 mission when it launched on March 2, 1995. NASA hide caption change caption NASA Astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence was aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor for the STS-67/ASTRO-2 mission when it launched on March 2, 1995. NASA What does it take to go … Read more
When it comes to hunting down the explosive deaths of massive stars in the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a true cosmic detective. This celestial Sherlock Holmes has found evidence of 80 new early supernovae in a patch of sky as wide as a grain of rice, held at arm’s length. … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication renowned news agency proofread OK! Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski and Sian Proctor were the first all-civilian crew on an orbital spaceflight in 2021. × close to Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski and Sian Proctor were the first all-civilian crew on an … Read more
Research shows that the four crew members of Inspiration4, the first ever fully civilian space mission, have become genetically younger during their time in space. But the effects didn’t last long. Scientists are now trying to unravel how the space environment affects human DNA. The Inspiration4 crew members had a packed schedule during their three-day … Read more
WASHINGTON – Stoke Space has tested a highly efficient engine it is developing for the first stage of its fully reusable launch vehicle. The company, based in Kent, Washington, announced on June 11 that it had fired the engine briefly on June 5 at a test site in Moses Lake, Washington. The engine, designed to … Read more
The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more
In 2026, NASA plans to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. Times have changed, as evidenced by new rockets, spacecraft and spacesuits. In preparation for the Artemis 3 moon landing mission, two astronauts put on the new spacesuits from Axiom Space at the end of April and tested for the … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. India’s largest telecom companies, led by rival billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Sunil Bharti Mittal, are poised to launch satellite internet services as they challenge Elon Musk’s efforts to establish Starlink in the country. Bharti Airtel’s … Read more
Image source, Getty Images Item information We’re in the middle of a moon storm. A growing number of countries and companies are eyeing the moon’s surface in a race for resources and space dominance. So are we ready for this new era of lunar exploration? This week, images of the Chinese flag being unfurled on … Read more