The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...