This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you’re packing for an interplanetary space mission—one that’s very long and might involve populating a faraway ...

3 min read This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Our fleshly forms ... craniums before and after six months in space, scientists found that their gray matter ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Space suits—designed to provide oxygen and consistent atmospheric pressure—have evolved from pressure suits for ...

The first Black person to clock a long-duration stay on the International Space Station, Glover is now aiming for the dark ...

This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Archaeology isn ... a pioneer of what’s been called space archaeology, has screened plenty of those images herself.

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the edge of a parking lot at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, stands a relic from a time ...

The agency still owns the rovers and other artifacts, but space law gives it no standing ... This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the abandoned campsite ...

Launched 40 years ago, the Voyager space probes are on a grand tour ... This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Insofar as we esteem the creations that last ...

This story is an expanded version of a page that appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... served in the space program, and played a role in the hunt for missing ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Juna Kollmeier wants to understand the substance of the universe: What forms space structures like galaxies, supermassive ...

This story appears in the May 2005 issue of National Geographic magazine. On January 29 ... universes” inhabiting the vastness of space. Five years later, after tracking the movements of ...

There's a lot hiding in the universe's dark corners. Interstellar dust clouds and inky stretches of deep space can appear dull to ordinary telescopes. But to a car-size telescope 26 million miles ...