Space exploration has always captivated our imagination, offering the promise of discovering new worlds and pushing the boundaries of human capability. As commercial space travel becomes more ...

As long as humans have been traveling into space, astronauts have experienced significant health effects from the extreme conditions of space flight, notably the reduction of gravity. Two Buck ...

Space exploration activity has been increasing. In turn, researchers are more interested than ever in uncovering more about how space travel affects human health and the progression of disease.

Every living organism on Earth has grown and evolved, experiencing an ever-present pull from Earth’s gravity. When traveling in space beyond the Earth’s gravitational pull, a phenomenon of near ...

Mayo Clinic physician and researcher Dr. Abba Zubair's work combines two passions—medicine and space—for the benefit of astronauts and people on Earth. His research in space is yielding discoveries in ...

[The following is a guest editorial written by Dr Lex van Loon, an assistant professor at the Australian National University and the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is co-author of a new ...

Researching the immune system in space could have payoffs for human aging on earth. Scientists have revealed how the lack of gravity affects the cells of the immune system at single cell resolution.