Most people picture astronauts floating weightlessly through gleaming corridors, and that image is accurate enough during the waking hours. Sleep, though, is a different matter. When the lights go ...

Light is one of the strongest signals our bodies use to synchronise the circadian clock. But what happens when the Sun no ...

One of the most commonly asked questions about living and working in space is where and how the astronauts sleep. Watching the astronauts set up their sleeping arrangements on the recent Artemis II ...

These 17 astronaut myths reveal what humans really can and can't do in orbit, from crying, sleeping and even going to the ...

Astronauts might get a good night of sleep in space with a new test developed at Washington State University. The test strip will allow spacefarers and other late-shift workers to track their ...

Humans adapt. We live in trackless deserts, on the tops of mountains, in pestilential jungles, in prisons and hospitals. To survive we sleep, for we need sleep like food. We adapt to sleeping in space ...