Shubhanshu Shukla recalled being cautious about releasing objects in his initial days on the station. “I had this strange ...

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A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum world. However, the new theory remains far from being proven observationally.

US Naval Research Laboratory scientists have successfully trained an Astrobee zero-gravity robot to fly in space without ...

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Is space the “final frontier” — or the perfect place to revolutionize life on Earth? Space architect Ariel Ekblaw reveals how self-assembling structures could build orbiting real estate in space ...

Shubhanshu Shukla, the Indian Air Force Group Captain who recently returned from a historic space mission to the International Space Station, shared how astronauts eat and drink in zero gravity and ...

Freedom from gravity is the new fashion. Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who flew on an 18-day mission to the International Space Station, was on a commercial space mission where ...