The NASA-SpaceX Crew 11 will study the effects of microgravity on disease-causing bacteria and bacteria-killing viruses.

SpaceX has sent up four astronauts to the International Space Station along with the disease-causing bacteria for the Crew-11 ...

For this experiment, Sheba will partner with the US firm SpaceTango to grow several bacterial species aboard the ISS using a ...

What they bring back may help us get to the bottom of public health problems on Earth, like antibiotic resistance and infectious disease spread.

Every mission to space is a milestone. But for the astronauts of Crew-11, their time at the International Space Station will ...

Five years after their space jaunts, the astronauts appear to be in good cardiovascular health.

Microgravity is a condition where gravity is extremely weak and objects are almost weightless. This occurs in space, where Earth’s gravity barely affects astronauts.

Acute exposure to microgravity can also cause symptoms of anorexia, vomiting, nausea, and headache, also known as space motion sickness. Fortunately, astronaut’s bodies can adapt to this in 48 ...

The team tested the Space Glass at the University of Bremen's ZARM drop tower in Germany, a facility that simulates microgravity conditions. The glass, containing whisky, was filmed dropping down ...

Brain.space will send a special helmet into orbit with flight members Larry Connor, Michael López-Alegría, Mark Pathy, and Eytan Stibbe on Ax-1's SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. It's built to mine ...

In microgravity, the spinal column elongates and somewhat straightens. In fact, astronauts can "grow" up to three inches (7.6 centimeters) in a weightless environment, according to NASA.