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

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

Cardman, who will command the Crew-11 mission, is a rookie astronaut selected by NASA to be part of the 2017 class of ...

Researchers demonstrate that under low fluid shear force conditions that simulate those found in microgravity culture during spaceflight, the foodborne pathogen Salmonella infects 3-D models of ...

They added the UD1022 to the microgravity simulation that on Earth can protect plants against Salmonella, thinking it might help the plants fend off Salmonella in microgravity. Instead, they found ...

npj Microgravity covers research that enables space exploration, including scientific research needed to develop advanced exploration technologies and processes, particularly those profoundly ...

Microgravity, on the other hand, is something humans experience in space, but the name is a misnomer. Orbiting objects, including astronauts, experience a free fall as they orbit the planet.

Astronauts have been going to space since 1961, but they still don’t have a refrigerator to use for keeping food cold on long missions to the moon or Mars. Through experiments conducted in ...