Yahoo Racing is powered by Motorsport Network, providing expert reporting, analysis, and insider access across the world’s top racing series. The chief science legacy of NASA's space shuttle program ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1990s, NASA launched thousands of baby jellyfish into space. Not just a few specimens in a lab container, but about 2,500 tiny jellyfish polyps, sealed in bags of artificial seawater and ...

In 1990, NASA sent about 2,000 baby jellyfish into space to study how organisms develop in microgravity. When the mission ...

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 ...

Having babies born in space could produce an interesting conundrum as shown by research with one particular creature.

Click to open image viewer. Astronauts used this Sony video camcorder with the Thermal Enclosure System-Crystal Observation System (TES-COS) to record and observe protein crystal growth experiments ...

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 ...

Hundreds of thousands of onlookers watched as the Shuttle Endeavour left Earth's atmosphere early this morning, heading into space with its cargo of five American astronauts, an Italian astronaut and ...