NASA begins its second Mars trial in Houston, where four volunteers will live for a year in a printed habitat called the CHAPEA program.

Highlighting its intent to send humans to Mars, NASA has announced that it will soon be embarking on a year-long simulation of a Mars mission using four research volunteers. Ross Elder, an ...

As we inch closer to the reality of human missions to Mars, spearheaded by NASA’s Artemis program and SpaceX’s Starship initiatives, the focus is shifting towards the survival of astronauts in the ...

NASA is treating food as mission-critical hardware for Mars, designing future habitats where crops grow alongside ...

NASA’s Johnson Space Center reminded everyone on Monday that its four volunteers have been inside its Mars simulation habitat ...

CHAPEA mission 2 crew members (from left) Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer pose in front of the ...

A crew of four research volunteers stepped inside NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat on Oct. 19, marking the start of the agency’s second 378-day simulated Mars ...

If you’re anything like us (people who are still watching X-Files reruns and fantasizing about leaving this planet), a new edition to the Michigan Science Center will excite you. The museum has added ...

As Nasa prepares for sending humans to the Moon and then on to Mars, four analog astronauts began a year-long simulated Mars mission at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre on October 19, 2025. They stepped ...

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Early prototypes of the SpaceX Starship super-capsule that Italy is chartering to speed its spaceflight and biotech experiments to Mars (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) With its ...

Robert Zubrin, likely the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, and then remaking it in the Earth’s image, predicts SpaceX’s colossal Starship will be the first spacecraft ever to ...