Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko currently holds the record for the most time spent in space: 1,111 days, or over three years, of his life without gravity. He accomplished this by participating in ...

Lower gravity. Higher radiation. No ER access. These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the ...

**This article contains spoilers.** “Gravity” welcomes viewers into outer space with a quiet and lonely shot of planet Earth. The award-winning picture, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, has cemented itself ...

Beyond gravity sensing to address Earth's climate issues, Blumenthal sees that this exquisitely sensitive space-based gravitational measurement technology could eventually be deployed for other ...

Since there's no gravity in outer space, nobody needs a bed. However, astronauts still need to ensure they don't accidentally bump into sensitive devices while catching some zero-g Zs.

On the afternoon of June 3, 2021, when his laboratory samples rocketed into outer space, Eric Furst stood in line at a different type of final frontier: the DMV. As tedious as waiting on a driver’s ...

Artificial Gravity Is Not Only For Outer Space Applications SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, among other people, have long proposed that humans build settlements on other planets--specifically, Mars.

Gravity is the curvature of spacetime due to the presence of mass. The gravitational influence from the Sun that keeps the Earth in orbit around the Sun is felt equally by the astronauts in space.

“Gravity” is a far more modest, down-to-earth affair, a non-sci-fi space adventure set in low Earth orbit, concerned only with the lives of a few characters. Still, there are points of contact.

‘Gravity’: On outer space, the film doesn’t need to nail every fact By Alexandra Le Tellier Oct. 8, 2013 1:52 PM PT ...