Breakthrough Starshot, a multi-faceted program to develop and launch practical interstellar space missions, successfully flew its first spacecraft -- the smallest ever launched.
One of the effects of living in space is the tendency of fluids to shift upward towards an astronaut's head. This results in the common "puffy face" appearance astronauts experience when they escape Earth's gravity. However, the more serious effects observed on orbit could include eye and vision damage.
New maps of dark matter dynamics in the Universe have been produced by a team of international cosmologists.
Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study.
Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin because both planets share a similar size and sur-face composition. Also, they both have atmospheres with complex weather systems.
Astronaut Jack Fisher: "We get to see 16 days & nights every 24 hours up here and that makes for a lot of pretty sunrises and sunsets."
