Space exploration captures our imagination like few other human endeavors. We picture astronauts floating gracefully through gleaming spacecraft, conducting important research while gazing at Earth’s ...

Along with hundreds of people, some strange objects have also been sent to space, from dinosaur bones to golf balls and even a gorilla suit.

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses ...