Norwegian researchers are developing the self-contained planters that will allow astronauts to grow food in space. They have just completed an experiment that involved growing lettuce for space.
A Japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator. The pair of satellites will be released from the ISS and a container acting like an elevator car will be moved on a cable connecting the satellites using a motor.
Today SpaceX will launch its 15th cargo mission to the International Space Station for NASA. On board Falcon 9 among other supplies is the first ever AI robot “crew member” to live on the station.
The agency just launched the Cold Atom Lab, a box that takes advantage of microgravity aboard the International Space Station and creates a temperature roughly 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will soon have a new crew member to interact with, a ball-sized robot dubbed 'Cimon'.
The Genes in Space-3 team turned a possibility into reality in 2017, when it completed the first-ever sample-to-sequence process entirely aboard the space station.
For the year-long experiment, astronauts will install the computer inside a rack in the Destiny module of the space station.
The agency is considering how to conduct science experiments on the Deep Space Gateway station, even while no crew members are on board.
Researchers combined gecko-inspired adhesives and a custom robotic gripper to create a device for grabbing space debris.
A NASA instrument built to help astronomers learn about the structure and behavior of neutron stars has been mounted to the International Space Station.
This particular SpaceX launch made history in another way: by carrying a Chinese science experiment to the station for the first time.
Tests will determine whether inflatables play a role in deep space exploration.
Made In Space is an US manufacturer of the world’s first microgravity 3D printer. As of April 2017, the company has produced 39 objects including spare parts for NASA, and components for medical research.
Sending an antibiotic-resistant superbug to a zero-gravity environment like the International Space Station will help NASA better understand how superbugs mutate to become resistant to available antibiotics.
The unassuming 3D-printed gravity meter was commissioned by a private citizen and manufactured aboard the ISS, and represents a significant step forward in space exploration.
