In other words, in microgravity, phages and bacteria don't bump into each other as often and the bacteria may have evolved to ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...