Four volunteers will soon be sealed inside an imitation Mars habitat on Earth, simulating a year-long mission to the Red Planet ahead of the real deal. On October 19, the volunteers will step foot ...

Later today, six people will enter a dome on a volcano in Hawaii that will be their home for the next eight months, as they simulate a future mission to Mars. It is the fifth such experiment run by ...

A test pilot and instructor from Edwards Air Force Base has been selected as one of four volunteers to take part in a yearlong Mars mission simulation program led by NASA to study long-term human ...

University of Hawaiʻi computer scientist Kim Binsted talks about the the HI-SEAS program on Maunaloa, which simulates ...

A view inside the sandbox portion of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. NASA is not quite sending astronauts to ...

The prospect of living on other planets, easily achieved in fictional Hollywood productions, isn't so simple for the scientific community. The amount of research and data it takes to accomplish such a ...

The sandbox portion of the Crew Health and Performance Analog, where research volunteers participate in simulated walks on the surface of Mars. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has selected four crewmembers ...

MARS SIM: The Mars Society is looking for six volunteers to participate as members of the crew of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) during a year-long simulation of a human Mars ...

The mobile treatment unit separates waste streams for efficient recycling, integrating biological reactors and hydroponics to ...