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.

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 ...

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 ...

On Episode 138 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Scott Tibbitts, who spun $7 of hardware store parts ...