Ever since humans gazed at the night sky, we’ve been drawn to that tiny reddish dot hovering above. Mars has captivated our ...

“This is a really important operational evaluation of human health and performance that NASA is doing in preparation to land the first humans on Mars. In CHAPEA, we mimic what is the Mars surface ...

The thin air of Mars has long been treated as a problem to be solved, a hostile mix of carbon dioxide and dust that stands ...

Scientists propose using ice as a building material for Mars habitats, offering protection from radiation while allowing ...

Mars is seen as the next major challenge for human exploration, but establishing life there is not easy.

Mars looks familiar from afar, but surviving there means creating a protective oasis in a hostile world. Instead of shipping construction materials from Earth, researchers are exploring how to use ...

ORIGAMI-style space homes that spring off the ground on Mars could house future visitors to the red planet. These hi-tech habitats would pop up with “one pull of a string” – with no ...

Analog missions are designed to simulate the crew’s experience in a given mission plan. In some cases, they simulate surface ...

Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog is the fancy term American agency NASA uses to describe a program meant to completely cut off a group of people from the outside world, in an attempt to ...