A new study found that microgravity simulated on Earth hindered sperm cell movement, egg fertilization and embryo development.

Humankind has been fascinated with space travel for quite some time. The 1960s were the height of our obsession, when the U.S. and Russia competed for the stars, children dreamed of becoming astronauts, and a televised robot famously said, "Danger, Will ...

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question is, why do we have astronauts at all? NASA's Artemis ...

Space travel is one of the most hazardous things a human being can endure, and not just for the obvious reason of launching into an airless vacuum at 25,000 mph. The human body is an extremely complicated machine, one that is expressly built to survive on ...

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And they also need to perfect the spacesuits that a new generation of astronauts would actually wear on the lunar surface. SN astronomy writer Lisa Grossman maps out the detour. Before any actual moon landing,

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new crew rocketed toward the International Space Station on Friday to replace the astronauts who returned to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation. SpaceX launched the replacements as soon as possible at NASA ...