Despite the significant strides made in space exploration, the dream of setting foot on Mars remains elusive. The journey to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Before NASA can send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, the space agency has created a simulated Mars habitat. NASA wants to observe the effects of a four-person crew living in the ...

For the first time in decades, NASA has its sights set on crewed missions beyond low Earth orbit. NASA has said it hopes to send humans to Mars in the 2030s, but there's a great deal we still don't ...

Trapped in a small but high-tech habitat, stranded on a cold desert world completely alien to our own, what would you do to decompress after a laborious day of scientific fact-finding and on-foot ...

In just over a month, Air Force Maj. Ross Elder will take part in a special NASA mission, during which he and three other crew members will spend more than a year living and working in an environment ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Starting Sunday night, a team of four volunteers will spend the next year inside a 1,700 square foot 3-D printed habitat at Johnson Space Center. The team is simulating what it would ...

Right now there is no conclusive evidence of life on Mars past or present. Nasa’s “leopard spots” are the most promising signs we have, but these are still inconclusive. If life exists on Mars today, ...

Emerging after a knock on the habitat's door by Kjell Lindgren, an astronaut and the deputy director of flight operations, the four volunteers spoke of the gratitude they had for each other and those ...

For a very long time humanity has dreamed of traveling to other planets. Because of its proximity and similarity to our own corner of the Universe, these 'other planets' often take the shape of Mars ...