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HOUSTON — An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis. Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern ...

On May 5 and 6, The Planetary Society joined with Instrumentation Technology Associates (ITA) in retrieving its astrobiology experiment samples from a payload package that survived the catastrophic ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Israeli scientists in charge of space shuttle Columbia's desert dust-monitoring experiment said Monday they have yet to find any dust storms but are zooming in on thunderstorms ...

OXFORD — A space shuttle flight scheduled for takeoff on Feb. 7 is to deliver to the international space station a Miami University experiment focused on understanding how light and gravity affect ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This morning, the world witnessed the safe ...

NASA's last space shuttle mission is set to blast off Friday carrying a mice experiment that University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers hope will help astronauts and people with ...

Click to open image viewer. Syringes such as this one were used in protein crystal growth experiments on the Space Shuttle. Astronauts activated experiments by injecting a solution into a growth cell ...