Medical care in space has long faced a quiet but serious limitation. For more than 40 years, astronauts relied on ultrasound ...

What makes these scans historic isn't visible in the images, but it could change the future of space medicine.

Astronauts require extensive training in order to operate the equipment, and the technique relies on soundwave ...

Since the first spaceflight by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in April 1961, the human presence in space has become a constant, with ...

For the first time, astronauts have had their bodies X-rayed while in space. This was not because there was anything wrong, ...

The astronauts on board the private Fram2 Crew Dragon mission in 2025 took the first ever medical X-rays in space.

Equipping spacecraft with x-ray machines could boost safety for long-duration spaceflights—like a crewed mission to Mars ...

A team of crew members aboard a commercial spaceflight acquired the first diagnostic X-rays during an orbital flight. Results ...

Crew members on a commercial spaceflight have taken the first diagnostic X-rays in space, using a portable device that could ...