As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has ...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who has been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past eight months, ...

Microgravity is a condition where gravity ... cells out of their comfort zone to see how they react to an unknown environment. For example, researchers have observed that cancer cells have ...

An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is all set to travel to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Dragon rocket as ...

This occurs in space, where Earth’s gravity barely affects astronauts. Advertisement Being in a microgravity environment for an extended period of time can lead to several health issues ...

A team of researchers led by Emory’s Chunhui Xu recently found that heart muscle cells can grow -and survive in the ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will be the first Indian to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on Axiom ...

Cancer cells are more hardy in the low-gravity conditions of space. koto_feja/iStock via Getty Images Plus ...