Rice University and NASA have launched the world’s first open-source dynamic simulation platform for ...

For decades, space agencies have relied on Earth-based simulations to understand what long periods of isolation might do to ...

Growing up in the USA in the 1960s I was captivated by the space programme as we raced the Soviet Union to the Moon. Most of my generation can tell you where they were when Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...

The race to return humans to the moon and eventually send astronauts to Mars has forced scientists to confront a difficult reality. Space is dangerous, isolated and unforgiving. When a medical ...

Think you have what it takes to live in a Mars and moon simulation for a year? NASA may want to select you as a volunteer.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Astronaut Simulator Drifting in the silence of space, you awaken aboard a damaged orbital station. Systems are failing, oxygen is running low, and every ...

Just a few days in simulated microgravity can subtly change the way women's blood clots, sparking bigger questions about health monitoring protocols for astronauts who can spend six months or more in ...