Imagine this: You're an astronaut fresh off the 300 million-mile trip to Mars, eager to start your research and maintain your enclosed living space. And then something breaks. While you probably ...

A goal of space exploration is in-situ resource utilization, bringing very little from Earth and using what you might find on the moon, planet, or asteroid that you are visiting. Plenty of researchers ...

Relativity Space launched the world's 3D printed rocket on March 22, 2023. Though the rocket failed to reach orbit, it did pass some important milestones on its maiden voyage. "It was, at least from ...

NASA has plans to construct a building on Mars. Its aim to administer another breakthrough in space comes with 3D-printing special areas for food and medicine. The international space agency will be ...

Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only the essentials: tools, seeds and clothing. Anything else would have to come ...

Space pioneers will bring 3D printers with them to make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. JumlongCh JumlongCh/Getty Editor’s note: The ...

The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) is intended to give NASA and prospective astronauts an idea of what it will be like to live on the surface of Mars. Our team tests, rates, ...

The race for the first commercial trip to the Red Planet is progressively getting more participants, with two companies recently announcing plans to arrive on Mars sometime in 2024. Relativity Space, ...

Nov. 29 (UPI) --A Texas-based company has landed a five-year contract from NASA to build landing pads, roads and shelter on the moon and on Mars. ICON, which is known for its 3D-printed homes and ...

Students tested the rovers in a simulated Mars environment meant to emulate what the ESA's Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover will endure when it launches to the Red Planet in 2028. When you purchase ...