MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...

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A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...

It means that for astronauts on the ISS, there’s no talk of “spring forward” and “fall back” in March and November, ...

The U.S. Space Force is hoping to get its own permanent opposition force for training, this time in orbit. Specifically, the service is looking at sending up satellites into space to serve as ...

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...

For the first time, scientists have detected a cosmic hum — the faint vibration of gravitational waves filling the universe. These ripples in space-time reveal the hidden collisions of ancient black ...

A Space Odyssey imagined progress through technology. Today, AI and lunar competition demand a smarter, more cooperative ...

Artists aren’t immune to the strip’s allure. M.C. Escher, the famed graphic artist, incorporated the Möbius Strip in his ...

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to ...