Meir said she enjoys having something green, alive and growing in the otherwise sterile environment of the ISS.

NASA's Anil Menon will be the first American to reach space in more than 3 months since the Artemis II moon mission in April. Here's how you can watch.

NASA flight engineer Anil Menon snapped this image of the eye of the storm with his iPhone from aboard the International Space Station

Indian American physician and astronaut Anil Menon stepped outside the International Space Station for a six-and-a-half-hour mission.

The Soyuz MS-28 landing in Kazakhstan brought a 241-day stay in space to a successful conclusion.

A speech-language pathologist on how complex swallowing is – and how small changes from gravity can complicate the process.

Washington | NASA astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir on Friday concluded their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to assemble the modification kit for its power channel that would allow addition of solar arrays.

The Artemis capsule is expected to splashdown on Friday. Saturday, April 12, 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. This historic event opened the way for space exploration for the benefit of all ...

After nearly two months aboard the Tiangong space station, Chinese astronauts have successfully harvested rice in orbit, bringing scientists a step closer to growing food far from Earth.

Space changes the rules for almost everything, including how a robot should move. On Earth, legs help us stand, balance and walk across a room. In microgravity, those same legs lose much of their purpose. That is why Orbit Robotics, an academic spinout ...

Beyond Artemis II, human spaceflight missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on these menus—and invited National Geographic inside. In space, food has to be appetizing ...

From the International Space Station on Aug. 2, 2026, NASA astronaut Anil Menon captured an incredible photograph of a swirling typhoon in the Pacific Ocean.