Sophie Adenot becomes first French woman astronaut after Claudie Haigneré to go to space after 25 years. She was selected for a long-duration mission, where her role is to carry out over 200 experiments aboard the International Space Station.

Four new crew members are on their way to the International Space Station after launching into orbit early Friday morning

NASA uses a portable microplate reader on the International Space Station to study bone loss, providing real-time biological data for astronaut health and space biology research.

NASA has released a breathtaking timelapse of glowing green auroras filmed from the International Space Station, revealing how solar particles transform Earth’s skies into a sweeping cosmic light show.

With the ability to generate thousands of times the G-force of Earth and to handle as much as 1,900 tons of mass combined with gravitational acceleration (G-tons), one thing is immediately obvious about China’s new hypergravity centrifuge, CHIEF1900. This machine is far beyond the realm of your high school science fair centrifuge experiment.

The Iris Nebula holds special significance for scientists because of its unique colours.

It’s a big universe out there—13.8 billion years old, full of hundreds of billions of star-and-planet-packed galaxies and, out past the limits of our sight, perhaps infinite in all directions. But as vast and inscrutable as the cosmos may seem, we’re ...