In the wake of recent space missions by Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic, one company is offering people an opportunity to feel what weightlessness is like. TODAY’s Al Roker was aboard a flight that ...

Take that, Richard Branson. Take that, Jeff Bezos and William Shatner and all the suborbital space tourists who have been blasting off the Earth in recent weeks for a few minutes of weightlessness.

Oct. 11 (UPI) --Twelve people with disabilities plan to experience more than seven minutes of weightlessness on a zero-gravity airplane flight from California next week as part of a mission to advance ...

Richard Branson wasn’t the only person making space-travel history on July 11. After Milwaukee's Gary Nosacek watched Branson's flight, he joined a first flight of his own, becoming the first Catholic ...

As NASA seeks to build a lunar outpost, visit Mars and commercialize spaceflight, the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human heart are of critical importance, according to researchers. By ...

Program to Inspire Kids to Pursue Math and Science and Support Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education as Part of Four-City U.S. Tour Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) Foundation ...

Following 60 days of ‘bedrest’ simulating the effects of weightlessness on the body, the first volunteers in the WISE (Women International Space Simulation for Exploration) study have been getting ...

Dutch chemist Paul Poodt has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions. If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, ...

It's long been known that exposure to radiation damages DNA, but a new study has found an additional risk for astronauts: DNA replication is more prone to errors in microgravity. Scientists tested ...