For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Following a stint in space as short as a few weeks, astronauts can develop measurable changes in the very shape of their ...

ISS research over 25 years shows how humans adapt biologically, medically, and technologically to space, informing future missions and scientific understanding of life beyond Earth.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Experiments aboard the International Space Station have shown that bacteriophages can still infect Escherichia coli under ...

The viruses devise ploys to break into bacterial defenses. Bacteria, on the other hand, strengthen their defenses so that ...

Ultimately, Mars will test our biology more than our technology. Every gram of muscle preserved, every synapse protected, every cell repaired will be a triumph of physiology. Space may dismantle the ...

Researchers found that the brain "shifts upward and backward within the skull following spaceflight," a new wrinkle for future space travel.

Exposure to microgravity leads to profound physiological changes that challenge human health during spaceflight and have significant implications for long‐duration missions. Research has demonstrated ...

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison team found that microgravity alters the "evolutionary arms race" between bacteria and the ...