When you’re on a camping trip, you might have to pack your own food and maybe something to filter or treat water that you find. But imagine your campsite is in space, where there’s no water, and ...

In October the International Space Station was even more busy than usual with nine astronauts living and working in humankind’s outpost in Earth orbit. With three more astronauts, the Station’s life ...

On Saturday the Japanese cargo vessel HTV-7 was launched into space from Tanegashima, Japan. Already orbiting Earth it will arrive at the International Space Station on Thursday packed with scientific ...

A new water-dispensing system on the International Space Station aims to test out technology that could help astronauts explore the moon. The roomy International Space Station is described by NASA ...

For some of us humans the thought of living up there in space (or perhaps on another planet) is not just a thought, but a dream. A dream some of us might see come true soon enough, thanks to the many ...

Blue Origin is one of several firms working with NASA to design commercial space stations that could one day take over from the aging International Space Station (ISS). After some reports of internal ...

Healthy, intact landscapes — home to the natural systems that produce our clean water, clean air, and livable climate — provide humanity’s life support system. Only 3% of the world’s ecosystems remain ...

NASA’s spaceflight microbiology and environmental chemistry research monitors and analyzes microorganisms, air, and water aboard spacecraft to support crew health systems and maintain operational ...

Water is life, at least as we know it. Every life form on Earth uses liquid water, and researchers who study the origin of life believe life's complex chemistry likely got started either in a warm ...