Before astronauts could venture safely into space, scientists faced a fundamental question: how would a living creature react ...

We take part in a real zero gravity science flight. This is not tourism but an actual research campaign with the European ...

A research team led by Davoud Jafari at the University of Twente, in collaboration with the University of Pisa, has completed a series of parabolic flight experiments to investigate advanced smart ...

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 ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas — When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon 40 years ago this week, they showed no ill effects from seven days spent in weightlessness. But as American astronauts and Soviet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio services the Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) on the International Space Station, designed, built and tested by Purdue and NASA’s Glenn Research Center. While ...