Sardined in a tiny capsule with three other amateur astronauts, he orbited our blue marble at 7.6km/sec. Outside, the blackness of space, with its microgravity and zero air and unseen perils of ...

Outer space has less physical space to achieve this flexibility, but Traxler has leveraged aesthetics to delineate different ...

Getting to outer space is tough, ... Due to a lack of gravity, orientation doesn't matter so long as the sleeping bag and its astronaut don't go floating off. Exercising. itoldya420/CC0.

No floor, no mat, and yet—astronauts are performing asanas in space! NASA and other space agencies now include yoga as part ...

On the International Space Station, which orbits Earth around 16 times a day, Irish American astronaut and Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman played a pair of Irish melodies on a 100-year ...

US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally coming home — here are some of the health issues they may experience following their extended space mission.

After all, in both places, you’re floating—though in the water because you’re buoyant and in space because there’s no gravity—and in neither can you simply call it a day, throw off your ...

Preparing and eating food aboard the ISS is no easy task. To prevent items from floating away, astronauts use tape with the ...

Fortunately, a few astronauts over the years have been more than willing to generously share a glimpse of crashing lightning as seen from outer space. And you better believe it looks nothing like ...

When astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS), shuttle missions, or theoretical expeditions to the moon or Mars get their clothes dirty, they can do one of two things: keep wearing them ...

In 2022, SATED was put to the test aboard a zero-gravity parabolic flight to prove it would work in outer space. University students worked as “simunauts” to determine how easy it was for ...

Eric Philips speaks to ExplorersWeb about his three and a half days orbiting the Earth, including how they slept and what microgravity feels like.