She flew multiple long-duration missions aboard the ISS, serving as a flight engineer and later as commander, conducting ...

Sleep deficiency is pervasive among astronauts before and during space flight, and the reported incidence of sleep-promoting medication use is 20 times greater than the proportion of Americans ...

Russian astronaut Vasily Tsibliyev hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for 12 days. He was being kept awake on purpose, as part of a study about sleeping on board the space station Mir. On the 13th day, ...

We all know that androids probably dream of electric sheep, but real-life astronauts are probably dreaming of quieter pastures. “The ISS is really noisy,” Dr. Kris Lehnhardt tells Inverse. Lehnhardt ...

Astronaut Danny Olivas describes some of the interesting sensations astronauts experience while sleeping in space. This video is one in a series developed for the Holt Scholars Program. Access the ...

Astronauts face unique challenges during space missions, and their sleep patterns are no exception. A recent study conducted by researchers at Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and NASA Ames ...

Space intrigues all, especially children. So when the students of different schools here got the opportunity to talk to astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who is onboard the International Space Station (ISS ...

Scientists are learning what short and long-duration space missions do to human bodies. Some changes are common like a puffier face, bone loss, and less sleep. Here are nine ways the harsh conditions ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) – After three months in space, astronauts lose sleep and sleep less soundly because the lack of gravity and the absence of day-and-night cues throw off their internal clocks, according ...