SPACEX is about to rocket 128 glow-in-the-dark baby squid into space for Nasa. Elon Musk’s rocket firm is also sending 5,000 ‘water bear’ creatures on a journey to the International Space Station ...

Scientists have shot tardigrades, one of the world’s most indestructible life forms, out of a gun in order to test whether alien microbes can start life on other worlds. Tardigrades are able to ...

Hundreds of 1-millimetre worms are going on an epic journey - into space! As part of research into how to stop human muscles from becoming weaker in space, the worms, plus other microscopic creatures, ...

07:01, Wed, Aug 12, 2015 Updated: 07:34, Wed, Aug 12, 2015 A YouTube user called UFO Lou posted a clip recorded from the NASA "live feed" of the ISS showing an astronaut working on the habitable ...

Tardigrades have unique abilities to survive in harsh environments — this is a scanning electron microscope image of the hydrated tardigrade Tanaka S, Sagara H, Kunieda. Two microscopic organisms have ...

Nasa has revealed the design chosen for its next generation spacesuits by a public vote - and a sci-fi inspired 'Tron' design has won. This design now will be incorporated into the final version of ...

A Nasa astonaut says he saw an ‘organic, alien-like’ creature in a Space Shuttle loading bay. Asked by conspiracy site UFO Sightings Daily whether he had ever witnessed a UFO, Leland Melvin answered: ...

Here’s just the thing for the dog that has everything – his own space suit. An authentic 1950s model is expected to fetch £6,000-plus at auction in Berlin this month. The Russian suit is believed to ...