Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

The unreal feeling of weightlessness made the zero-G period feel a lot longer. It was unforgettable. The practice flights of Fat Albert and the other Blue Angel planes on Friday were all to ...

According to Nasa, for every month in space, astronauts' weight-bearing bones become roughly one per cent less dense if they ...

Twenty-six pupils and students are taking part in today’s parabolic flight, experiencing weightlessness on board an Airbus A310. They were escorted to the aircraft by President Petr Pavel, who also ...

One weekend in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II, visitors to London's Science Museum might have come across a dozen young men peering through a contrivance of rotating mirrors at ...

On Earth, gravity pulls blood toward the lower body, but in space, fluids shift upward, causing astronauts to have puffy ...

William Shatner, who became the oldest person to travel to space at age 90, is offering encouragement and practical advice to Gayle King and the all-female crew launching April 14.

Neil Melville would love to explain what weightlessness feels like, but he can’t. It’s a surprising admission from a man who’s experienced zero gravity more than 1,000 times in his role as a ...

Everything on Earth is subject to the force of gravity. The effects of that force vary greatly: Sometimes they are very minor and go unnoticed by man, while at other times their impact is fundamental.