If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship exploring the profound mysteries of the universe and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has some insights for you. “It ...

NASA Johnson Space Center, in partnership with NASA Tournament Lab and online crowdsourcing platform HeroX, today announced three winners of the widely publicized Space Poop Challenge. he global ...

NASA has partnered with the crowdsourcing platform HeroX in its search for the next lunar toilet. Do your, uh, duty and design the next toilet that astronauts will use on the moon. The prize for ...

(CNN) -- When hurtling through the cosmos, the last thing an astronaut wants to worry about is what to do when nature calls. If they're in a regularly pressured spacecraft, the answer is easy -- just ...

NASA is asking for everyone's help in coming up with new ways they can handle needs the human beings who are astronauts have in terms of waste. They're calling in 'The Poop Challenge' and there's a ...

Think of it as a tea leaf reading, only stinkier. Researchers are using NASA Landsat satellite images to see how environmental changes are affecting the world’s animals, specifically the Adadélie ...

With Project Artemis, NASA is planning to put astronauts back to the moon by 2024. Parts of the trip will be groundbreaking, including having the first woman ever step foot on the lunar surface. Other ...

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The NASA-funded study hopes to extend the hunt for pollutants into space, to help dogs and their science partners hunt for smelly scat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In the next few years, NASA plans to return to the moon. We know which rocket the astronauts will launch atop, what capsule they'll be cramped in, and how they might land on the lunar surface. But ...