The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low ...

ISS research over 25 years shows how humans adapt biologically, medically, and technologically to space, informing future missions and scientific understanding of life beyond Earth.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

A research team says their findings could help tackle soaring antibiotic-resistant infections that cause urinary tract ...

Though lithium-ion batteries have been used in space for over two decades, the US and China are racing to assert their ...

Now that NASA has found evidence of water on Mars, astronauts will test the growth of a small plant in Martian soil, thanks to students at Bellevue’s Open Window School. The experiment will be one of ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

CLEVELAND — NASA has selected four high school teams of students to test their science experiments in a competition that simulates the microgravity in space. The experiments will be dropped next week ...