Lipton and his colleagues have created a new class of deployable structures that could one day be used to create artificial ...

NASA shows how space takes a toll on men and women differently. — -- With an upcoming mission to Mars, NASA is studying the ways that living in space affects both men and women. In a study ...

As humans set their sights on living beyond Earth, one surprising challenge is emerging: how do we grow healthy crops in the uncharted environment of space? Purdue University researchers, in ...

Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for space—a suitcase-sized instrument that could soon be measuring everything from subterranean water to hidden reserves of ...

"We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms." Scientists are developing an advanced quantum sensor for low Earth orbit that can detect the tiniest tremors in Earth's gravity. These ...