When astronaut Scott Kelly spent nearly a year in space, his heart shrank despite the fact that he worked out six days a week over his 340-day stay, according to a new study. Surprisingly, researchers ...

NASA astronaut Victor Glover installs the Fluid Dynamics in Space experiment, or Fluidics for short. Fluidics is the black cylinder pictured in the foreground of the European Columbus module of the ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings LIFE magazine Science Editor Warren Young experiences weightlessness during ...

"What goes up must come down". Ever since astronauts started playing games in space, for instance catching morsels of food floating in weightlessness conditions, the general public knows that the ...

Washington Post reporter Christian Davenport flies weightlessly after water droplets during a Zero-G flight out of Dulles Airport on Oct. 2. (Steve Boxall/Zero-G Corp.) correctionAn earlier version of ...

A team of scientists from Russia and Canada has analyzed the effect of space conditions on the protein composition in blood samples of 18 Russian cosmonauts. The results indicate many significant ...

A NASA experiment shows that weightlessness selectively affects bones. The results could change how astronaut health is protected. Mice sent to the International Space Station for 37 days experienced ...

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 ...

A ground-based, experimental model used to simulate astronaut weightlessness in space has provided scientists an opportunity to study the effects of stress on immune organs. The new study demonstrated ...

You don’t have to go to space to feel the weightlessness of orbit. Sue Nelson joins a special flight that puts its passengers into zero gravity – at least for a few seconds. “Five, four, three, two, ...

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