In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and ...

A new study by NASA scientists explores the risks and challenges of human reproduction in space, especially for long missions ...

On March 11, 2008, the first Japanese module of the International Space Station launched on the space shuttle Endeavour during mission STS-123. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...

RIT’s Academic Convocation speaker is former NASA astronaut and physician Mae Jemison, who will receive an Honorary Doctorate ...

In 1990, NASA carried out an unusual experiment that involved sending thousands of baby jellyfish into space. The goal was to ...

The reusable rocket has transformed the space industry in the last decade, and a new startup led by a SpaceX veteran wants to ...

Kalpana Chawla's historic journey began on November 19, 1997, when she flew aboard the STS-87 Columbia mission as part of a ...

Retired astronaut Butch Wilmore reflected on the thoughts he had when he and former colleague Sunita Williams were stranded in space for nearly 300 days in June 2024.

Cosmic jellyfish aside, jellyfish are not an animal that you would expect to encounter in space too much. But at one point in the 1990s, 60,000 jellyfish spent time in space aboard the European Space ...

Brian Taylor, a SpaceX veteran, has launched Lux Aeterna to develop satellites with built-in heat shields that can return to Earth with payloads intact.

Listen to leading voices in Silicon Valley, and you might come to believe that “solving intelligence” is sufficient to “solve ...