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This week 20 women are tucking themselves in a waterbed for five days as part of a dry immersion study to recreate some of the effects of spaceflight on the body. The campaign kicked off yesterday with the first two subjects at the Medes space clinic in Toulouse, France.

We've rounded up some simple tips and tricks for getting maximum zoom from your camera, with advice on how to upgrade your equipment and process your images.

An asteroid measuring about three times the size of the Statue of Liberty will sail harmlessly by Earth on Sept. 22, the 2021 fall equinox.

Boeing engineers are still troubleshooting valve problems that thwarted a launch try this summer.

The first, and possibly only, trailer for Tom Hanks' new movie entitled "Finch" has arrived and we get our first glimpse of a terrifying, post-apocalyptic Earth.

After the release of Stellina and Vespera, Vaonis will launch the most powerful automated telescope yet, Hyperia.

We sat down with a group of women in astrophotography, to get their top tips for capturing pictures of the night sky.

Building better worlds is not as easy as it seems.

Image: Gloomy moonscape for rover test

Forty-five years after it made its public debut, NASA's space shuttle Enterprise is being rolled out again, this time as a rollerball pen. Retro 51 announced its new Space Shuttle Enterprise Tornado.

Scientists have discovered the first meteorite that doesn't fall into one of two fundamental groups. The meteorite provides a unique glimpse into the era of asteroid formation and migration.

About 4.5 billion years ago, the solar system was just a giant, spinning cloud of gas and dust. Today, it's flat. Here's how that happened.

The Landsat 9 Earth observation satellite inside the payload fairing of an Atlas 5 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: NASA

The next Landsat observatory has been mounted on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in California for liftoff Sept. 27, continuing an unbroken record of Earth observations to track urban sprawl, water usage, tropical deforestation, retreating glaciers, and more over the last half-century.

There are two star patterns representing crowns that are visible in our current late-summer evening sky: Corona Borealis (the Northern Crown) and Corona Australis (the Southern Crown).

NASA is reorganizing its human spaceflight office, a move the agency believes will aid its push to put boots on the moon and Mars.

Hasbro is releasing a new Nerf M41-A blaster from the film 'Aliens' and it measures over two feet long.

NASA’s VIPER rover will land and search for water ice in the unexplored Nobile region at the Moon's south pole.

Thousands of tremors shook the island in the week before the eruption occurred.

Stargazers across the globe celebrated this year's magical Harvest Moon, which marked the end of the summer season just two days before the autumnal equinox.