NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after nine months in space. Experts have said a prolonged period in space can come with changes to human physiology and psychology.

According to Afshin Beheshti, director of the Center for Space Biomedicine, the absence of gravity leads to various physiological adaptations that can compromise astronaut health. For instance, in ...

Should the magnetic poles switch again, if we faced geographic north and held one of our current ... Earth’s atmosphere. This causes a geomagnetic storm, a major disturbance in the magnetosphere ...

Multi-spacecraft scientific missions for space physics have been flown since the 1960s with early missions such as IMP, VELA, ...