NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are all set to return to Earth after spending nine months aboard the ...

While stranded, Wilmore and Williams will have been providing vital data to help measure the impacts of prolonged stays – every bladder and bowel movement they had will have been weighed and checked ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment — these are just a few of the challenges space travelers ...

During the nine months that NASA's stranded astronauts have spent in space, their bodies endured low gravity, space radiation, isolation and more. Here are all the signs of their ill-health.

Down to their very DNA, astronauts’ bodies can change in weird and sometimes significant ways, particularly during a long flight high above the Earth: They start to elongate, often developing a taller ...

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been at the International Space Station since June after technical issues with their ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Nick Hague are scheduled for splashdown on March 19 at 3.27am IST. Post-landing, they will face ch ...

Magdrive is working on three versions of its space thrusters, and because they run on solid metal, they might one day even be powered by space junk collected directly in orbit, turning it from threat ...

After 9 months in space, NASA astronauts Sunita William and Butch Wilmore are expected to come home sooner, as the space ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after a prolonged mission on the ISS, initially ...

Bone and muscle deterioration, radiation exposure, vision impairment -- these are just a few of the challenges space ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...