Nichole "Vapor" Ayers shared a fascinating video of the northern lights that unexpectedly formed while she was filming from ...

What are the Van Allen belts? Learn how these giant rings of charged particles cause problems for astronauts and satellites.

These aren't the first bacteria to be discovered in space but they are particularly well-adapted for space station life.

Shepard undertook a dangerous mission that held the promise ... His spacecraft, Freedom 7, was a tribute to the seven Project Mercury astronauts, and to one of our Nation's founding principles ...

that will expose astronauts to other concerns, such as radiation and the effects of microgravity. Still, Wang says Martian dust is not a “game ender” for future Mars exploration. “I don’t consider ...

And new revelations from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams ... unable to control the spacecraft’s movement at all—a dangerous bid for a spacecraft approaching a space station ...

Every time an Apollo astronaut walked off the moon and into his spacecraft, he tracked a load of dust with him. Breathing dust in, as Harrison Schmitt reported during Apollo 17 in 1972 ...

Even inhaling a few milligrams of perchlorates in Martian dust could be dangerous for astronauts. Wang noted that the best time to prepare for the health risks of Martian dust is before humans ever ...

Even inhaling a few milligrams of perchlorates in Martian dust could be dangerous for astronauts. Wang noted that the best time to prepare for the health risks of Martian dust is before humans ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study discovered that the dust that covers the surface of the red planet could prove extremely toxic and dangerous to future astronauts. The new study, published in ...

Astronauts also have to adjust to the sensations of water ... as much radiation as a resident near the Fukushima plant in Japan would have ... it’s not dangerous, but there are limits to this,” Beatty ...

Astronauts recently invented a special mug ... of the equation since humans exhale carbon dioxide, which can prove dangerous in high concentrations. Normally, we rely on plants to convert carbon ...