If we could farm in space, astronauts would have fresh, familiar foods. Those plants could recycle air and water. Plus, it feels good to be around plants. Once more people – and maybe even cats – can ...

Junk is accumulating in space at a fantastic pace, with millions of pieces orbiting the Earth, and humans need to figure out a way to deal with it.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

The sun's distance from Earth changes throughout the year but it has nothing to do with the seasons. The term "perihelion" describes the point in an astronomical body's orbit where it is nearest to ...

This morning, as the sun climbed over a private spaceport in rural West Texas, a six-story-tall rocket lit its engines and lifted off, carrying a spacecraft with four people on board—the first ...

When is the winter solstice? The next winter solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will occur on Dec. 21, 2025, and the next Winter Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere will occur on June 21, 2025. The ...

A reddish-brown sporophyte can be seen at the top center of a leafy gametophore. This capsule contains numerous spores inside. Mature sporophytes like these were individually collected and used as ...

For years, TRISH has supported research projects and studies that aim to solve the challenges of human exploration in space. To understand how to solve those challenges, we first must know the risks ...

Making Space with Hoda Kotb Join Hoda Kotb on a journey of self-discovery and resilience of the human spirit. In this podcast, Hoda hears from some of the people she admires most, and whose stories of ...