[Space Force Special Operations Command], but the Space Force will continue to identify requirements to meet the growing demands of combatant commanders’ space needs,” a Space Force ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Fresh from space, NASA’s oldest full-time astronaut said Monday that weightlessness made him feel decades younger, with everyday aches and pains vanishing. Don Pettit ...

The U.S. Space Force is keen to add to its arsenal a spacecraft that would essentially serve as the cosmic equivalent of an aircraft carrier. Appropriately known as an "orbital carrier," the ...

In 2020 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx risked everything to touch a cosmic relic, Bennu offered no guarantees only danger and possibility, years of planning led to a heart-stopping touchdown that could have ...

Building 1 at Peterson Space Force Base, Colo. is the provisional headquarters of U.S. Space Command. Credit: USSPACECOM WASHINGTON — The years-long political tug-of-war over the permanent home ...

President Donald Trump announced the reestablishment of the U.S. Space Command during his first term in 2019 in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) A new report from the ...

NASA's LunaRecycle Challenge offers $3 million to develop technologies for recycling human waste in space, addressing the challenge of managing astronaut feces, urine, and vomit on the moon and ...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said on a podcast Wednesday he expects an official announcement later this month that Space Command will move to his home state of Alabama ...

The permanent headquarters for US Space Command has become the topic of conversation among elected officials in both Alabama and Colorado this week. There have been months of speculation about the ...

Space travel presents unique physiological and psychological challenges for astronauts, including muscle weakening, bone loss, and blood redistribution. Maintaining healthy weight and gut health ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned triumphantly to Earth ... For scientists, these space rocks are pristine environments, untouched by the complicated cycles of weather, water, rock, and more ...

Space, for example, is one of those extreme environments where laundry is not something that can be done easily. The main reason is that water is an incredibly precious resource in space.