NASA is not often known for making the best use of existing COTS (commercial off the shelf technology) aboard the ISS. Then again, sometimes they are. This is an example of when the agency really ...

For the first time ever, DNA was successfully sequenced in microgravity as part of the Biomolecule Sequencer experiment performed by NASA astronaut Kate Rubins this weekend aboard the International ...

MESA, Ariz. - A Mesa couple is heading out of this world - at least their DNA is. It all started when the couple read an article about a NASA astronaut sending his ashes into space, and they reached ...

John F. Kennedy in Germany 1963 US president John F. Kennedy after his arrival on 26 June 1963 for a four days visit in Germany addressing an enthusiastic crowd in Cologne. ( Photo by dpa ...

DNA from four former United States presidents will be going to space. The space burial company Celestis will launch a Star Trek mission carrying 150 capsules with cremated human remains and DNA on the ...

CNN.COM - NASA researchers have found the building blocks of DNA, the genetic molecule that is essential to all life forms, in meteorites, pieces of space rock that have fallen to Earth. The discovery ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)-- A Valley couple will soon be among the first to head to space without physically going. This will be on the Enterprise Flight, which will carry their DNA into space. The ...

Space Crystals LLC plans to land DNA-infused crystals on the moon in a commercial lunar lander. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...

That’s one small strand for man. A retired physics professor in the Midwest is planning to have his DNA launched to the southern pole of the moon when he dies, so it may be used for cloning one day — ...