Zero-gravity sleeping is a reclined position where your head and upper body are elevated at about a 40-degree angle, while your knees are bent and raised slightly above the heart. The goal is to ...

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

Yes, those numbers on the bottle tell you how likely you are to get tanked. But more importantly, they hint at what the ...

A new theoretical framework shows how subtle fluctuations in spacetime could be detected using existing interferometers.

IN the course of some other experiments which are being undertaken in the Psychology Department of the University of Edinburgh, a number of subjects were requested to arrange in serial order, ...

There’s a new generation of experiments that may unlock the gravity particle. Physicists have long believed that detecting the particle of gravity—the graviton—was fundamentally impossible, with the ...

Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up.

Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

A San Diego high school senior is a finalist in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search competition for her research on how astronauts’ wounds might be able to heal. Leanne Fan, 18, a ...

About 85 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be dark matter, yet there is still no confirmed direct detection of any dark matter particle. Ground-based detectors, space-based ...

While heavily modified smartphones have been to space before, NASA is planning to send almost commercial-grade phones to the ...