A viral video of NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn cursing gravity as he tries to place a pen mid-air was actually a parody. But ...
New research shows astronauts tend to grip objects in microgravity as if they felt as heavy as or heavier than they would on ...
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Astronauts' memories of Earth's gravity may influence how they move and hold objects, even after months in space
As humanity heads back to the moon, scientists are trying to understand the impact that being in space can have on the brain.
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NASA is planning on setting fires on the moon, because certain materials may be more flammable there
NASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, the first time such experiments have been conducted on another celestial body ...
How can microgravity influence muscle regeneration and overall muscle loss in astronauts? This is what a recent study published in Stem Cell Reports hopes to address as an international team of ...
Ants in space is not the premise for the latest Dreamworks film, but for an experiment carried out aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Eight colonies of common ants were flown up to the ISS ...
Christina Koch and the rest of the four-person Artemis II crew returned to Earth this past Friday, splashing down off the ...
Parabolic flight tests reveal that gravity had been masking nearly all of graphene aerogel's light-driven propulsive capability in every prior experiment.
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Laser-driven graphene propulsion could enable fuel-free deep space missions
Space travel has long involved heavy lifting. To reach a destination, the spacecraft has ...
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