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, ...

Katy Perry is gearing up for her journey into space. On April 14, the 40-year-old singer will be flying aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket ship on an all-female mission along with the Amazon ...

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

Chinese scientists have brought a tasty twist to spaceflight, as a newly installed zero-gravity oven will allow astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station to enjoy a host of culinary delights.

We've all had dreams of being up in space and experiencing the freedom of zero gravity, no longer bound by the strange force that keeps us stuck on the ground. But this experience is limited to the ...

The first pictures of Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King in space have been released after they completed their Blue Origin flight on Monday. The all-female crew spent just four minutes in zero ...

Human health is the Achilles heel of space travel. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now succeeded in printing complex muscle tissue in zero gravity. This will enable drugs for space missions to be ...

In zero gravity, there's no weight to bring to bear and the rescuer just bounces off the patient's chest, so some other method is needed. To evaluate alternatives, cardiologists teamed up with the ...

None of his previous flights were anything like being rocketed into space, facing upward, quickly accelerating to 17,500 mph, the astronaut said.