Watch: The BBC's Rebecca Morelle struggles during her first experience of weightlessness There's a reason parabolic flights are nicknamed "vomit comets" - it's like riding on a mid-air rollercoaster.

Cats are known for their uncanny ability to land on their feet, but how does this reflex perform when gravity disappears? A ...

The video below shows McAuliffe practicing the lesson aboard NASA's zero-gravity Vomit Comet: 2. Does magnetism still work in microgravity? Magnets are already pretty cool, but they're even in ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

NASA and other space agencies routinely use ... we're not talking about a zero gravity chamber — we're talking about the Vomit Comet. If you're so inclined, you can book a trip on the reduced ...

In the day, it was famous for simulating weightlessness for soon-to-be NASA astronauts ... hence the plane’s infamous nickname, the “Vomit Comet.” (Original Caption) 11/9/1970: Apollo ...

Update, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024: images from NASA’s SOHO Observatory suggest that comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) did not survive its close encounter with the sun, and is presumed disintegrated.

NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth objects such as asteroids in its lifetime, burned up in the atmosphere as ...

The comet's final moments were captured by the European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission. Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) was discovered on Sept. 27 by the Asteroid ...