Discover how NASA's 2006 space mission with fruit flies uncovered alarming insights into immune system changes in zero gravity, raising concerns for future Mars explorers.

In 2015, fruit flies were sent to International Space Station to study how microgravity and the space environment affect the innate immune system. NASAs Fruit Fly Lab-01 tested…

A tiny insect became one of the earliest living passengers sent towards space, long before astronauts were routinely orbiting Earth. In 1947, fruit flies were loaded onto a…