Experiments on the space station

Photo: The test site for the exposure of bacteria to space on the outside of the Japanese Kibo module on the International Space Station. The experiment tested between 2015 and 2018 how many years bacteria can survive in space. Photo: JAXA / NASA

Bacteria can survive a journey from Earth to Mars

A Japanese experiment on the space station looked at how bacteria can survive in space conditions and transfer life from one planet to another.
The Cygnus payload spacecraft that carried the laboratory to the International Space Station (Photo: NASA).

An Israeli space laboratory has arrived at the International Space Station

Astronaut Sunita Williams runs an Israeli experiment on the International Space Station. Photo by NASA

Learning in the sky - Israeli student experiments arrived at the space station

source of food and oxygen. The radish seeds that germinated in space. Photo courtesy of NSL Satellites

From middle school - to outer space

A white tower plus a glowing garden on the International Space Station - the light played the role of gravity. Photo: NASA, from the study by Paul and her colleagues

Grow glow-in-the-dark plants on the International Space Station

The space shuttle Endeavor is docked at the space station as photographed from the Soyuz spacecraft that left the station. Photo: Paolo Nespoli, European Space Agency

"Scary action from a distance" inside the International Space Station