When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

A meteorite chip sat in a small container, bathed in liquid, while the International Space Station floated overhead. Inside, ...

LambdaVision, a company that has used microgravity experiments on the ISS to develop an artificial retina, has booked space on a planned commercial station.

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

BENGALURU: Isro has opened a fresh window for Indian scientists to access space-based research with the launch of the Indian Microgravity Experiments programme, IMEx-2026. The space agency’s ...

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

CLEVELAND — NASA has selected four high school teams of students to test their science experiments in a competition that simulates the microgravity in space. The experiments will be dropped next week ...

A UA research team conducted an experiment it designed with NASA during the first week of June. The microgravity research team was one of 18 teams to participate in NASA’s highly competitive Reduced ...

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 ...