Space travel makes you fatter

The journey to the space should be an eye-opening experienceone that gives you a new perspective of humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think that an experience like this would make a person infinitely wiser, a new report discovered that space travel can be real make you a little more … Read more

The pair plasmas found in deep space can now be generated in the laboratory

How it works: A proton (far left) from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator at CERN hits carbon nuclei (small gray spheres). This produces a shower of various elementary particles, including a large number of neutral pions (orange sphere). As the unstable neutral pions decay, they emit two high-energy gamma rays (curly yellow arrows). These … Read more

Starship launch plan at Kennedy Space Center prompts environmental comments

SpaceX's Starship takes off for its fourth test flight on the way to creating jumbo rockets that can fly astronauts to the Moon and even Mars.

SpaceX officials hope to soon launch and launch the massive 492-foot-tall Starship-Super Heavy rocket up to 44 times a year at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But 40-year Titusville resident Susan Palma fears further development on the Cape risks further disrupting the natural water flow and salinity of the endangered Indian River Lagoon. She attended an … Read more

Four astronauts spent 3 days in space. Here’s what it did to their bodies and minds.

Space changes you, even during short trips off-planet. Four people who spent three days outside Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes that included modest declines in cognitive tests, heightened immune systems and genetic changes within their cells, scientists report in a suite of papers published Tuesday in the journal Nature and some. … Read more