Though lithium-ion batteries have been used in space for over two decades, the US and China are racing to assert their ...

Ants in space is not the premise for the latest Dreamworks film, but for an experiment carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Eight colonies of common ants were flown up to the ISS ...

The International Space Station (ISS) welcomes scientific guests, that is, experimental modules that have reserved berths in the ISS’s payload racks. In a sense, the ISS is a scientific cruise ship.

Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects of the new conditions of altered gravity on biological systems. It has long been known that continuous exposure to microgravity conditions ...

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 ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...