Last week we told you of PETA’s victory announcement in the battle against having NASA conduct radiation experiments on monkeys, a controversy that had been building and to which we devoted a cover ...

A controversial NASA plan to irradiate squirrel monkeys to better understand the risks of long-duration spaceflight on humans appears to have been scrapped. NASA ordered the project removed from ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has tabled a highly controversial experiment on squirrel monkeys which would have tested the effect of gamma radiation on the primate's central ...

A UFO expert claimed that NASA’s photo of Mars’ surface featured an animal that appears to be a monkey. According to the expert, the space agency may have brought a live animal on the Red Planet as ...

NASA released its first “Global Selfie,” or as Noelle Swan, staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor, called it, “the shot taken round the world.” The 3.2 gigapixel interactive image is made up ...

PETA is proclaiming victory in their ongoing battle to stop radiation experiments on monkeys that had been planned by NASA. Well, folks, you did it. After scores of protests and more than 100,000 ...

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has obtained documents discussing a controversial NASA-funded project that would expose squirrel monkeys to radiation. PETA obtained the documents, ...

On January 21, 1960, a monkey named Miss Sam launched on a Little Joe rocket to help NASA test the launch escape system for ...

Growing up in Lake Jackson, April Jean Evans recalls sitting on her grandfather's lap, watching space shuttle missions on TV and going outside to look up at the stars with him. There was never any ...