While the Artemis II astronauts have been protected from the icy vacuum of space on their journey, their bodies have ...

For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts ...

According to a new study of organisms found living in NASA cleanrooms even after decontamination, a fungus called Aspergillus ...

In October 1989, a blast from the sun flung out a stream of super-powered protons. This solar storm lasted for days and ...

What processes other than water and energy could be responsible for creating life on other worlds? This is what a recent study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology hopes to address ...

Scientists have long known that fungi are resilient, but a new study suggests that some strains might survive every step of ...

A team led by Peng Zhou at Fudan University has built a radio-frequency communication system from atomically thin molybdenum disulfide transistors, flown it aboard a satellite in low Earth orbit for ...

Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

Another space weather feature, coronal mass ejections (shown above) send plasma and magnetic field material from the sun's corona into space and can trigger geomagnetic storms when they hit Earth.