NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth after an extended nine-month mission aboard the ...

Spokesman-Review reporter Nick Gibson is in Florida this week to report on Anne McClain's and NASA's SpaceX launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Follow along in print and online at ...

As we plan longer missions to space, the moon, Mars, and beyond, we'll need a way to keep our astronauts fed when they can't ...

Trump again called on the United States to send astronauts to Mars in his speech to a joint session of Congress.

Plant immunity is the inherent or induced capacity of plants to withstand or ward off biological attack by pathogens. Molecules released from pathogens are recognised by plant cell surface ...

After analyzing over 800 samples collected by astronauts in multiple modules of the United States Orbital Segment in the ISS, Benitez and his team concluded the microbial and chemical environment on ...

He doesn’t envision laying down shovel-fulls of compost on the ISS floor, but perhaps sterilized, then carefully re-inoculated soil could be used to grow plants and spread beneficial microbes ...

The immediate future of the International Space Station is suddenly in doubt thanks to a single tweet. Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and unelected advisor to President Donald Trump on basically ...

Should the ISS be abandoned and deorbited early ... President Trump stated during his inauguration speech that the plan was to have "American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...

Protect the young plants from slugs and snails, and water regularly. You may also need to stake them if they're in an exposed position. Choose your variety carefully as dwarf sunflowers grow to around ...

Pandya said she speaks to her daughter regularly, and Williams is excited to see her family and her husband but is keeping busy on the ISS, working on experiments, exercising to combat the effects of ...

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk accused former President Joe Biden of leaving two astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station for “political reasons.” “They were left up there for ...