Colleen Cain got to do what few teachers in the country can do – test classroom experiments in zero gravity. Cain teaches seventh-grade science at Larson Middle School in Troy and earlier this month ...

Scientists have invented a low cost, zero-gravity microscope called FlightScope that successfully conducted experiments on the vomit comet.

It's no secret that lab days are some of the coolest in science class. Teacher Lauren Parker and her students at Fort Worth Academy took that cool to truly new heights. Parker got a ticket on a plane ...

In a few weeks, a Glen Hills Middle School teacher will spend 11 minutes in zero gravity with NASA to conduct an experiment she and her students designed. Lalitha Murali, teacher and gifted program ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

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

Purdue graduate student Samantha Alberts and professor Steven Collicott discuss details of a zero-gravity flight experiment that flew this June on NASA's "vomit comet," an airplane that induces short ...

Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the ...

The Krohn Conservatory's staff chose plants that looked "otherworldly" for the display, according to Manager Mark House. Krohn Conservatory's annual butterfly show is inspired by space this year.

During the experiment, an operator wearing virtual reality glasses tracks the movement of a small mark on the screen with his eyes ISS, January 31. /TASS/. The crew of the International Space Station ...