Thanks to not-so-recent advances in technology, we can shoot just about anything into space, or at the very least into Earth's orbit. At first, we launched spy satellites during the Cold War, but once ...

The space industry is a growing consumer of industrial gases, but in one surprising respect the opportunity could be growing ...

NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

Russia, which plans to independently launch a space station in 2027, has designed a space station that rotates like a top and ...

British company Space Forge has launched a mini-factory into orbit to produce semiconductors in space. Thanks to the zero ...

We've all had dreams of being up in space and experiencing the freedom of zero gravity, no longer bound by the strange force that keeps us stuck on the ground. But this experience is limited to the ...

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Dear Doctors: Our 11-year-old son is fascinated with those astronauts who are stuck on the space station. One of the things he asks about a lot is how being in space for that long affects the human ...