Billions of years ago, a young spiral galaxy began to grow in a crowded part of the universe. It pulled in gas and small companion galaxies, slowly building up the bright central region and sweeping ...

The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern age. It is the largest, most complex, most expensive and most durable spacecraft ever built. Its first modules ...

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"Archaeology is not just about the very distant past," said Walsh, who is also a co-founder of Brick Moon, a consultancy in space habitat design and use. "It's about using objects, artifacts, built ...

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How do astronauts cope with life onboard the International Space Station (ISS) and how can scientists study it? This is what a recent study published in PLoS ONE hopes to address as an international ...

ORANGE, CALIFORNIA—According to a Gizmodo report, a new archaeological survey of the International Space Station (ISS), known as the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment, or SQuARE, is ...

New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape where crew create their own “gravity” to replace Earth’s, and ...

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