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Scientists will send thousands of <em>C. elegans</em> up to space in hopes of understanding muscle loss in astronauts.

Delay of SpaceX Launch May Mean 36,000 Wormy Passengers Are Too Old for Their Planned Experiments

By Yasemin Saplakoglu published

Here's what those wriggling worms are expected to do in space ... and it's not to scare aliens.

Space Exploration
Astronaut Harrison Schmitt with the American flag and the Earth in the background, during a trek on the lunar surface as part of the Apollo 17 mission.

Last Man to Walk on the Moon Mistaken About Climate Change on Earth

By Mindy Weisberger published

Astronaut Harrison Schmitt saw Earth from space, but doesn't see that human activity is shaping climate change.

Climate Change
An artist's depiction of ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter at work around Mars.

Astronauts Going to Mars Will Absorb Crazy Amounts of Radiation. Now We Know How Much.

By Meghan Bartels published

There are plenty of challenges to putting people on Mars, whether you look at the rocket, the astronaut or the planet itself.

Mars
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Watch Hurricane Florence Make Landfall in This Incredible Space Station Video

By Meghan Bartels published

Hurricane Florence, the vast storm meteorologists and astronauts alike have been tracking, made landfall this morning (Sept. 14) near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

Hurricanes
Hurricane Lane dominates the Pacific Ocean in this photo from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold taken on Aug. 22, 2018 as the Category 4 storm approached Hawaii.

Hurricane Lane Looms Over Hawaii in These Astronaut and Satellite Photos

By Meghan Bartels published

Government weather satellites are watching closely as a massive storm called Hurricane Lane threatens Hawaii.

Hurricanes
ESA Astronaut's View of California Fires

California Wildfires Rage in Astronaut Photos from the Space Station

By Mike Wall published

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have taken dramatic new photos of the fires that are blackening huge swaths of the Golden State and throwing off smoke that billows far to the east.

Wildfires
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Rare 'Lunar Bible' That Visited the Moon Is Up for Auction

By Mindy Weisberger published

Would you pay $50,000 for a Bible that flew to the moon?

Religion
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'Lost' NASA Tapes Show Humans Sort of Caused Global Warming on the Moon Too

By Brandon Specktor published

Why did the moon see a sudden temperature spike in the '70s? Blame astronaut footprints.

The Moon
NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor gestures from inside a bus before the launch of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on June 6, 2018.

Why Cosmonauts Pee on the Bus That Picks Them Up for Launches

By Elizabeth Howell published

Every time that space crews launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, they literally follow in the footsteps of the first human in space – Yuri Gagarin.

Space Exploration
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Sally Ride Is Getting Her Own Forever Stamp

By Rafi Letzter published

Physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and the first astronaut to come out as having a same-sex partner, will have her likeness on a stamp.

Space
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