Colleen Cain got to do what few teachers in the country can do – test classroom experiments in zero gravity. Cain teaches seventh-grade science at Larson Middle School in Troy and earlier this month ...

NASA is looking for new providers to supply low-gravity parabolic flights for spaceflight training and scientific research.

It's no secret that lab days are some of the coolest in science class. Teacher Lauren Parker and her students at Fort Worth Academy took that cool to truly new heights. Parker got a ticket on a plane ...

Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the ...

Purdue graduate student Samantha Alberts and professor Steven Collicott discuss details of a zero-gravity flight experiment that flew this June on NASA's "vomit comet," an airplane that induces short ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Nearly three decades have passed since Lakewood native Jaime Chanter stared out of her high school classroom window to infinity and beyond. While the 1995 Lakewood High School ...

Some of the first experiments in space dealt with gravity and weightlessness. They were somewhat simple studies to test the new environment. Alan Shepard was the first man to hit a golf ball on the ...

The Krohn Conservatory's staff chose plants that looked "otherworldly" for the display, according to Manager Mark House. Krohn Conservatory's annual butterfly show is inspired by space this year.

For astronauts to go on long missions to the moon or Mars, they need a refrigerator. But today’s fridges aren’t designed to work in zero gravity or upside down if oriented that way when a spacecraft ...