Future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond may no longer need to carry every drop of propellant from Earth. NASA has ...

Human space missions beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO), such as to the Moon and Mars, will require increased crew autonomy in health management, due to communication delays and limited resupply. These ...

Submarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments—from ocean depths to outer space. ESA, the Portuguese Space Agency and the Portuguese Navy are now ...

Adaptability and resilience are distinguishing features of Homo sapiens. Our large complex brains and sophisticated behavior have provided key macro-evolutionary advantages that distinguished us from ...

HOUSTON—Recent remarks by NASA’s acting administrator help define his commitment to keeping the U.S. ahead in space by returning Artemis astronauts to the Moon ahead of China and leading the way to ...

Getting stuck in sand has ended dreams of exploration before. On Mars, where loose dunes, soft soil and rocky terrain stretch ...

How difficult will it be for future astronauts on Mars to establish a sustainable settlement? This is what a recent preprint submitted to Elsevier hopes to address as Dr. Florian Neukart, who is an ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

As the space economy accelerates into the commercial frontier, once the exclusive domain of the Cold War geopolitics and scientific discovery, it is now increasingly defined by private investment, ...