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 ...

It's 35 years since Helen Sharman boarded a space capsule heading into orbit, all thanks to a job ad that she had stumbled ...

Ed White was of an earlier generation — he became the first American to walk in space at roughly the time Nicole Stott was learning to crawl. But White experienced a very similar sense of awe, rooted ...

As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...

The renewed interest in space travel sparked by the Artemis II mission and NASA’s intention to send astronauts to Mars has ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A day after NASA's Artemis II successfully launched, 7News spoke with NASA's Human Research Program's Chief Scientist Steven Platts about what astronauts are experiencing in space ...

It's true, though: outer space does have a smell, or rather, many smells. The cosmos isn't sterile or empty, after all. It's ...

A crew of seven people who live and work on the the International Space Station got into the Olympic spirit Friday, sharing an out-of-this-world training montage. As the Paris Games' opening ceremony ...

Astronauts experience the overview effect, a profound connection to Earth. This feeling extends to ancient Newark Earthworks.

Butch Wilmore, a former NASA astronaut, has spent his career pushing the limits of human spaceflight, logging hundreds of ...

It was such pain that introduced me to these muscles and started me on a journey that meandered from outer space to the inside of a cell. But let’s start at the beginning. It was just an innocent ...

Sure, a European astronaut might not be laying claim to parts of the moon anytime soon, which is technically illegal anyway ...