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Researchers are studying the effects of spaceflight on the human body by placing women in water tanks for five days. 

Floaty Feeling

The women will spend five days in waterbeds. 

Scientists Are Putting Women in Giant Waterbeds to Study Outer Space

Scientists got an unprecedented look at the exoplanet WASP-127b and made new discoveries about its atmosphere and weather.

Weather Alert

Unsurprisingly, the forecast on the "hot Saturn" world WASP-127b calls for thick clouds.

Scientists Manage to Study Weather on Planet in Different Solar System

Retired astronaut Bill Shepherd warns Congress that NASA should thoroughly investigate damage on the International Space Station before securing more funds.

Status Report

Bill Shepherd says there are probably other cracks that haven't been found yet.

Astronaut Who Helped Build Space Station Says Damage Is “Serious”

In an unusual yet poetic essay, New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye compared astronauts to a genus of dung-eating fungus.

Well Then

Is venturing beyond Earth really "aspiring to leave the dung pile"?

New York Times Compares Astronauts to Dung-Eating Fungus

NASA finally announced a launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope, the long-awaited orbital observatory meant to replace the aging Hubble.

360 Yes Scope

And hey, it's only 14 years late!

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finally Has a Launch Date

The water supply on the International Space Station is teeming with bacteria, so scietnists are trying to figure out what that means for astronaut health.

Crunchy Water

Can we send them a filter or something?

Study: Space Station Drinking Water Is Teeming With Bacteria

China's Chang'e-5 orbiter, the spacecraft that helped ferry Moon rocks back to Earth last year before heading to deep space, just started a return journey.

Moonlash

This might be Chang'e-5's final move.

Chinese Probe Returns to Moon From Deep Space, for Unknown Purpose

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.

Photo Finish

The new lunar Space Race is on!

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space program who repeatedly threatened to abandon the International Space Station, now denies having done so.

Make up Your Mind

Rogozin is either suffering from severe memory loss — or, much more likely, he's trolling NASA once again.

Head of Russian Space Program Tells Absurd Lie About Abandoning ISS

As laid out by reporter Nicholas Schmidle in a revealing piece for The New Yorker, the crew on board Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft veered way off course.

Off Course

The pilots reportedly chose to ignore a red light that lit up in the console.

Richard Branson’s Rocket Went Way Off Course During Spaceflight

A Russian official warned that much of the equipment in Russia's part of the International Space Station is expired, and "irreparable failures" may follow.

Urgent Repairs

"Literally a day after the [in-flight] systems are fully exhausted, irreparable failures may begin."

Russian Official: Space Station Damage May Be “Irreparable”

"The Accident," a bizarre and likely ancient brown dwarf, hints at an entirely new class of celestial objects hiding in plain sight within the Milky Way.