Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have completed a spaceflight biology investigation aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that reveals how microgravity fundamentally ...

Sierra Space will work with Astral Materials and Space Forge Inc. on ways to use its space systems for semiconductor production in microgravity. Credit: Sierra Space WASHINGTON — Sierra Space ...

In brief: Living in space is hard on the human body, and providing medical care to astronauts – and eventually regular people who travel to space – can be complex given the constraints on supplies and ...

Being an astronaut looks like an exciting and glamorous career. But have you ever thought about the dangers that these people face by being exposed to extreme conditions, such as radiation and ...

Earlier this week, a bio laboratory containing four science experiments arrived at the International Space Station. The lab is housed inside a box the size of a milk carton, and the research ...

In space, no one wants to deal with the cleanup from liquids, flames or other messy science experiments. That's why NASA shipped a special facility to the International Space Station to do a deep dive ...

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 ...

In microgravity, without the continuous load of Earth's gravity, the tissues that make up bones reshape themselves. Bone cells readjust their behaviors—the cells that build new bone slow down, while ...