In 1965, astronaut John Young secretly carried an unauthorized corned-beef sandwich aboard NASA’s Gemini 3 mission. The ...

A new NASA-backed study has pinpointed why astronauts often experience constipation in space and how that might affect their ...

President Donald Trump will award the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the Artemis II crew at NASA's Johnson Space ...

A new personal radiation shielding vest tested during the Artemis I flight could significantly reduce the radiation dose that ...

The Artemis II crew will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor after becoming the first humans in more than 50 years ...

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their ...

Astronauts can face an awkward but important problem in space when their digestive systems slow down, making it harder to ...

We were going to write a constipation joke here, but it wouldn’t come out.

You may have seen gold visors on astronauts' helmets and wondered where the tint comes from. It turns out there's a good ...

A new study suggests microgravity changes how gut bacteria process food, slowing digestion and making constipation more ...

The first X-rays taken in space have shown that astronauts may soon have access to a medical tool that could become important ...