A number of astronauts have been stuck in space due to unfavorable weather at the landing site. Returning to Earth is a ...

Researchers discovered that moss spores can survive nearly a year exposed directly to space. Despite intense UV radiation and temperature swings, most spores remained viable when returned to Earth.

Mission-critical hardware used in space is not supposed to fail at all, because lives may be lost in addition to resources, availability, performance, and budgets. For space applications, failure can ...

What is the temperature in space? It's a far more complicated question than it seems. Because space is considered a vacuum, which means it's empty, it has no temperature. But the objects traveling ...

How hot is the Universe today? How hot was it before? A new study by an international team of researchers, including members of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe ...

Food for astronauts has traditionally been a boring, bland liquid, but China may have solved this problem with an oven that ...

Sporophytes survived nine months in orbit; most endured and germinated back on Earth, revealing insights into plant ...

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) in Boulder, Colo., issued a G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm watch for Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025 into the following day. This comes as forecasters watch a pair ...

The moss species Physcomitrium patens is the latest organism to survive an extended stay in the vacuum and radiation of space.