There are a handful of ways to experience weightlessness. You can jump out of a plane, go on a zero-g “vomit comet” ride — or, of course, launch into space. Now there might be a much easier ...

In the wake of recent space missions by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, one company is offering people an opportunity to feel what weightlessness is like. TODAY’s Al Roker was aboard a flight that ...

Oct. 11 (UPI) --Twelve people with disabilities plan to experience more than seven minutes of weightlessness on a zero-gravity airplane flight from California next week as part of a mission to advance ...

The living and working conditions of Astronauts in space are extremely calculated and require deliberate attention. The astronauts must prepare to deal with motion sickness, claustrophobia, medical ...

It's long been known that exposure to radiation damages DNA, but a new study has found an additional risk for astronauts: DNA replication is more prone to errors in microgravity. Scientists tested ...

Program to Inspire Kids to Pursue Math and Science and Support Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education as Part of Four-City U.S. Tour Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) Foundation ...

Dutch chemist Paul Poodt has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions. If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, ...

For years, various models have been developed to describe an important class of mixing effects that occur, for example, in the flow in a chemical reactor. Experimental validation, however, has lagged ...

Following 60 days of ‘bedrest’ simulating the effects of weightlessness on the body, the first volunteers in the WISE (Women International Space Simulation for Exploration) study have been getting ...