As NASA and other space agencies set their sights on sending astronauts to Mars in the coming decade, scientists are now trying to figure out if the human body is actually capable of surviving in this ...

Santiago Carrasco lay on his back, looking at the paused “Looney Tunes” intro while a graduate student attached ECG electrodes to his chest and strapped a blood pressure cuff to his arm. A four-point ...

Playing sports on another planet sounds like science fiction. In theory, it would feel almost superhuman. You could run ...

Floating around in microgravity inside a spacecraft might look like fun, but it can do nasty things to your body. With the current enthusiasm for crewed space flight and particularly NASA’s plan to ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

NASA’s Psyche mission is preparing for a major milestone as the spacecraft heads closer to its journey toward the metal rich asteroid Psyche. On May 15, the spacecraft will perform a crucial Mars ...

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