For years, getting anything into space has been slow and expensive. You prepare for months, sometimes years, and you often get one shot to run your experiment. If something does not work, you wait ...

Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease, researchers say. The ...

The need for key domain awareness in areas untracked before in deep space has a unit of the U.S. Space Force fostering cutting-edge research and development and pushing advancements into operations as ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will use ice-penetrating radar from UT to peer beneath Jupiter moon Europa’s ice shell. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltec The University of Texas at Austin has long been a ...

Following the Artemis II crew’s historic flyby of the Moon, we take a look at the leading institutions for space-sciences research. Space sciences is the study of planetary environments, space weather ...

Early Tuesday morning, Polaris Dawn flew through the atmosphere, taking its four crewmembers to the highest altitude humans have experienced since the Apollo era, where they will conduct the first ...

Science doesn't always yield predictable outcomes. Much of what we enjoy are happy accidents emerging from unexpected activities, and we often derive benefits from lofty goals that at first have ...

How will the United States direct finite resources to make the most impactful advances of knowledge in the complex laboratory of the space among Earth, the Moon, and Mars? The next decade will provide ...

Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier – Mars. To get there, we’ll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials. As researchers who work on engineering plants to ...

The International Space Station seen from a Crew Dragon spacecraft in October 2024. Credit: NASA Research that leverages space to develop treatments for blindness, cancer, and Parkinson’s disease is ...