NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fellow astronaut Jessica Meir.

NASA shared a video showing astronauts kicking around an official World Cup soccer ball on the space station. Here's what was going on.

In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with the European Space Agency (ESA). The aeroplane flew big arcs up and down in the sky. At the top of the arc I experienced 22 seconds of weightlessness,

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their purpose. That is why Orbit Robotics, an academic spinout ...

Beyond Artemis II, human spaceflight missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on these menus—and invited National Geographic inside. In space, food has to be appetizing ...

The NASA astronaut is part of the first manned moon mission in over five decades Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff full time in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in ...

An image shot on a handheld Nikon during the recent Artemis II lunar mission has revealed new insights into the evolution of our solar system

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Three astronauts died on their return from Salyut 1 – the world's first space station with the horrifying discovery made only after they made a flawless landing back on ea