Boiling Liquid Does Something in Near-Zero Gravity Even Scientists Didn’t See Coming
Out in deep, dark depths of space, electronics and fuel can still get hot – very hot. As…
NASA Is Making a Fifth State of Matter in Orbit
It’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that the International Space Station (ISS) is a giant lab where…
Space embryos: China launches lab-grown human cells into orbit to study reproduction
China has sent artificially constructed human embryo models to the Tiangong space station, marking the first known attempt…
Scientists Exposed Flies to Crushing Hypergravity. The Results Were Unexpected
Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won’t go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists…
NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment
Artemis 2 was both a milestone and a test: how prepared are we to go back the Moon,…
New Research on Muscle Loss Suggests Humans Will Really Suffer on Mars
Keeping astronauts strong and healthy in microgravity is no easy feat. Those serving six-month missions aboard the International…
If astronauts run out of oxygen in space, this is what happens..
Spacecraft are equipped with Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS), which regulate atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, and…