We don’t know yet how, when, or who will be the lucky passengers, but it seems inevitable that humans will land on Mars. Apart from being a highly-ambitious goal, we can also see it as an important step in exploring ...

NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge is awarding $1 million to public members who can show inventive solutions to the challenge of feeding astronauts on long-term missions. The Issue Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) generally consume canned or dry ...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station do spine scans, heart checks, and breathing tests. During a spacewalk on January 19, 2022, Russian spacewalkers Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov worked on the Prichal module. The International Space Station’s main scientific activities ...

A new study by a biologist at the Université de Montréal aims to explain how squirrels save energy while hibernating and what implications this knowledge may carry for the future of space flight. Matthew Regan’s study of the thirteen-lined ground ...