These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the impact of spaceflight on the human body.

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And that 100% of your DNA may come from outer space? No joke. The biochemistry that defined the coding system of your DNA may have happened off-world, and perhaps even long before Earth existed.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...

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Although the Soviet Union, now Russia, signed the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which forbids nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in space, that’s not exactly easing anyone’s mind.

NASA astronauts on International Space Station capture images of lightning from space. The images McClain and Ayers shared show electrostatic discharges – in other words, lightning – from ...