It usually starts with a headache. Headaches are one of the earliest symptoms of Space Adaptation System, a type of space motion sickness that affects 60% to 80% of astronauts during their first few ...
A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...
MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our understanding of science, space, and the universe. On November 2, 2000, ...
When an unmanned NASA spacecraft landed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a few days before Christmas 2023, its payload included liver cells from UC San Francisco that had spent two months orbiting Earth ...
A team of engineers from the University of Minnesota sent the new Minnesota state flag into space on July 17. The experiment tested how certain fabricated materials, which engineers foresee being used ...