Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

"Generating plasma on orbit represents a fundamental shift, it proves that the essential environment for advanced crystal ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

Rock-and-roll puns aside, ELVIS is leaving the building — and Earth's surface — to collect data for “suspicious minds” who wonder if microbial life could exist in subsurface oceans of icy moons like ...

An interdisciplinary research team including mechanical science and engineering professor Mickey Clemon from the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched supplies and experiments into space on Monday. The launch occurred at 4:15 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center. This is SpaceX’s ...

Microgravity experiments on the International Space Station helped Merck develop a faster subcutaneous version of Keytruda ...

Two Russian cosmonauts are back inside the International Space Station after conducting a spacewalk to install a semiconductor materials experiment, as well as retrieve and jettison a no-longer-needed ...

The International Space Station is the largest space outpost ever built, but it's not the only one up there and there a more ...