NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission conducts medical and plant research aboard the International Space Station to improve intravenous fluid systems, cardiovascular treatments, and food growth in ...

Some of the first experiments in space dealt with gravity and weightlessness. They were somewhat simple studies to test the new environment. Alan Shepard was the first man to hit a golf ball on the ...

If humankind is to explore deep space, one small passenger should not be left behind: microbes. In fact, it would be ...

Space Foundry printed electrodes that could be used in space-based biological and chemical sensors on parabolic flights in Nov. and Dec. 2021 and June 2022. As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to ...

A gentle rumble ran under a researcher's feet as a rocket carrying her research -- live, human muscle cells grown on scaffolds fixed on tiny chips -- lifted off, climbed, and disappeared into the sky ...

Collins Aerospace’s spacesuit design proved astronauts can move around with it in zero gravity. Collins Aerospace’s spacesuit design proved astronauts can move around with it in zero gravity. is a ...

One of the biggest challenges in long-term space exploration is a source of food for astronauts. While humans have been traveling in space since the 1960s, the way food is stored hasn't changed much.

Now that NASA has found evidence of water on Mars, astronauts will test the growth of a small plant in Martian soil, thanks to students at Bellevue’s Open Window School. The experiment will be one of ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment ...

Scientists at the University of California (UC) San Diego will be the first to test two cancer therapies in space, launching new stem cell experiments onto the International Space Station. They’ll ...