While astronauts do not leave home to go to war or face combat, families of space travelers may share a few commonalities ...

Billionaires make it seem that we have all the tech we need to settle on the moon and Mars. But the hard part of living in space is adapting the human body to extraterrestrial conditions. Business ...

One way that astronauts have been fighting bone loss is through strength training. And they're getting some help with a new machine delivered this week by the shuttle Endeavour, which docked with the ...

Shubhanshu Shukla revealed that astronauts are taught to be either a doctor, nurse or support staff, depending on the situation in space.

Astronaut Suni Williams, of Needham, recently spoke about her nine-month stay at the International Space Station. A thruster malfunction on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft caused the mission to be ...