European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

You may have seen videos of astronauts jumping on the moon. Their movements appear bouncier and lighter than how we move on Earth, and this is thanks to gravity. Gravity is "the force by which a ...

The chosen indicator, beating over 2,600 entries from adults and children, is the work of Lucas Ye from Mountain View, California. Ye's entry is called “Rise”, and it was inspired by the iconic ...

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including ...

When Artemis II launched Wednesday, it was carrying "Rise," a stuffed toy designed by an 8-year-old from California that will be used to tell astronauts when they have reached weightlessness.

Plush toys travelling into space may sound unusual, yet they have quietly remained part of human spaceflight for decades.